Yahoo!, Google and MSN serenade Indian users

Sufia Tippu
Friday, 22 September 2006 07:13

IT Industry - Market

Today, the key driver for these Internet companies is slurping more local content onto their offerings.

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“In India, connectivity along with language is hampering growth. We would be soon be launching content in local language, to expand our user base”, adds George Zacharias, head of Yahoo! India operations.

A strong R&D push in India development centers

Although Yahoo!’s Rosenweig did not announce any multi-million dollar investment in India, he said the company is significantly ramping up its operations in India, a top investment destination for the company.

The company’s engineering centre in Bangalore, the largest outside the US, is 800- people strong, and will be 1,000 by the year-end, representing one-tenth of Yahoo!’s global strength. “Initially, it was strictly a back-end set-up. Today, it is part of our global engineering set up, leading in innovation. In future, there would be complete products being developed out of India,” Rosenweig said.