Yahoo!, Google and MSN serenade Indian users

Sufia Tippu
Friday, 22 September 2006 07:13

IT Industry - Market

The same story is repeated at the Google development center in Bangalore and the Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) in Hyderabad.

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Google Bangalore is its first R&D centre outside of the US and its charter is to innovate, implement, and launch new Google technologies and products for the global audience.

Says Google’s Nishar: “The work here touches many fundamental areas of computer science, including information retrieval, distributed systems, machine learning, data mining, theoretical computer science, statistics and user interfaces.”

At MSIDC too, a number of incubation ideas are under development which span different businesses of the company, including MSN global products like MSN toolbar beta, MSN connector for Outlook, MSN supportability reporting.