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India Wire Yahoo!, Google and MSN serenade Indian users
India Wire Yahoo!, Google and MSN serenade Indian users | Yahoo!, Google and MSN serenade Indian users |
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| Written by Sufia Tippu | |
| Friday, 22 September 2006 | |
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Page 1 of 4  Three Internet media giants – Yahoo! Google and MSN - this week have revealed their plans to woo the Indian masses with local content.On Tuesday, Google’s director – product management, from Mountain View, California, Deep Nishar, who was in Bangalore said, “At Google, we have put in a lot of instruments to gather facts and feedback. For our Indian customers we are building a number of localized products. At this point of time I cannot reveal what we are going to launch but our focus, for sure, is local users.” On Wednesday in Mumbai, Yahoo!’s chief operating officer, Daniel Rosenweig, in his maiden visit to India said, “India’s contribution to our $5.3 billion global revenue may be less than significant today, but we are “very satisfied” with the Indian operations. Low Internet penetration in the country is the chief dampener for the company. But, with a population of over a billion people, this is a market nobody can take lightly.” On Thursday in New Delhi, MSN announced the launch of MSN Hindi and four other regional language portals. “The new languages feature on Windows Live Messenger. We will also continue our drive to provide MSN services and products to our users in their regional languages. This initiative is just the beginning in providing users with features which bring them closer to their loved ones” said Jaspreet Bindra, country head, MSN India and Windows Live. |
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