Google Maps Now Supports 9 Indian Languages, Company Announces During Google for India L10n Event
4 years ago

Google Maps Now Supports 9 Indian Languages, Company Announces During Google for India L10n Event

News 18  

Google today held its special L10n event that highlighted the company’s efforts for including more Indian languages in its ecosystem. Further, the company also announced that users can now toggle search results on mobile devices between English and any of the four newly added Indian languages: Tamil, Telugu, Bangla, and Marathi. Further, During the event, Google also announced that its famous navigation app, Google Maps will now support nine Indian languages, expanding its functionality beyond just Hindi and English. Further, the company also announced the availability of a language picker on Google Maps which will allow users to quickly change their language. Apart from this, the company also announced that Google Search users will be able to toggle search results on mobile devices in four newly-added Indian languages – Tamil, Telugu, Bangla, and Marathi.

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Google Maps offers free access for Indian developers to help build better solutions
1 week, 6 days ago

Google Maps offers free access for Indian developers to help build better solutions

The Hindu  

Google on Monday announced free access of Google Maps Platform from March 2025 to developers across the world and India. Tina Weyand, Senior Director of Product Management, Google Maps Platform, wrote that for Indian developers this means that instead of the recurring $200 monthly credit, developers can access up to $6,800 worth of free usage every month, distributed across all …

Google Translate adds 110 new languages including Awadhi, Chhattisgarhi, Marwadi
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Google Translate adds 110 new languages including Awadhi, Chhattisgarhi, Marwadi

Op India  

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Google Search's speaking practice feature now available for users in India: Know how it works
1 year, 2 months ago

Google Search's speaking practice feature now available for users in India: Know how it works

India TV News  

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Google Maps to offer metro ticket booking in India: Here's how
1 year, 2 months ago

Google Maps to offer metro ticket booking in India: Here's how

India TV News  

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Google Will Not Launch These 5 Things In India: All Details
1 year, 2 months ago

Google Will Not Launch These 5 Things In India: All Details

News 18  

Google has launched multiple products in India this week and the list includes the new Pixel 8 series phones and the Pixel Watch 2 smartwatch. 5 Things That Google Will Not Launch In India Pixel 8 Pro With 256GB or More Storage Google has launched the 128GB and 256GB storage variants of the Pixel 8 in the country but when …

Google News expands language support by adding Gujarati and Punjabi for Indian users
1 year, 4 months ago

Google News expands language support by adding Gujarati and Punjabi for Indian users

India TV News  

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Pixel Fold, Tablet And Maps Immersive View: Google Is Not Bringing These To India But Why?
1 year, 7 months ago

Pixel Fold, Tablet And Maps Immersive View: Google Is Not Bringing These To India But Why?

News 18  

Google had its 2-hour-long I/O 2023 keynote last week, where for the first time we saw not one or two but three big hardware launches. In Google’s case, you have the Pixel Fold foldable phone, the Pixel tablet which was teased at the Pixel 7 series launch last year and some other interesting features on Maps and other AI-centric products. …

Google is bilingual in India, whether users ask for it or not
1 year, 8 months ago

Google is bilingual in India, whether users ask for it or not

The Hindu  

There’s a reason people in India have been seeing bi-lingual search results on Google. “Using advanced machine learning-based translation models and a cross-language search technology, we’ll serve you high-quality and relevant content in your local language alongside English results, if that’s how you choose to view them,” Google had said in its blog post announcing bilingual results. A similarly inconsistent …

Google, MapMyIndia announce 3D maps for Indian cities
2 years, 4 months ago

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Live Mint  

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Google brings ‘Street View’ to India
2 years, 4 months ago

Google brings ‘Street View’ to India

The Hindu  

Google on Wednesday announced the launch of its popular ‘Street View’ feature in India – after failing to bring the experience to India at least twice in the past decade following security concerns raised by government agencies over collection of data. The India launch marks the first time in the world that Street View, which allows users to view panoramic …

Google Maps Street View coming to these Indian cities first, check if your city is in the list
2 years, 4 months ago

Google Maps Street View coming to these Indian cities first, check if your city is in the list

India Today  

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Google Translate adds 24 new languages including Bhojpuri, Assamese, Sanskrit, Maithili and many more
2 years, 7 months ago

Google Translate adds 24 new languages including Bhojpuri, Assamese, Sanskrit, Maithili and many more

Firstpost  

With the addition of languages like Assamese, Bhojpuri, Mizo, Kurdish etc. As real-time machine and app based translation becomes more commonly required, Google announced at their I/O developer’s conference that it has added 24 new languages to Google Translate. At their ongoing Google I/O developer’s conference, The Mountain View based tech giant announced that thanks to Machine Learning, Google Translate …

Google I/O 2022: Google to introduce 24 new languages in Translate, add Google Chat and more
2 years, 7 months ago

Google I/O 2022: Google to introduce 24 new languages in Translate, add Google Chat and more

India TV News  

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, has doubled down on making new breakthroughs in some of the most technically challenging areas of computer science for countries like India that need them the most. Addressing the company's flagship Google I/O 2020 conference, Pichai said that Google's flood forecasting technology sent flood alerts to 23 million people in India and Bangladesh …

Google Maps down, millions of users worldwide face outage
2 years, 9 months ago

Google Maps down, millions of users worldwide face outage

Op India  

Late on Thursday India time at around 9:30 PM, the most used navigation app, Google Maps crashed leaving all its users directionless. The website Down Detector recorded a sharp spike in reports about Google Maps today evening as hundreds of thousands of people suddenly found themselves unable to access the map on the app. Google Maps crashed Some people got …

Google Maps Gets Transliteration Support for 10 Indian Languages to Show More Accurate Results
3 years, 10 months ago

Google Maps Gets Transliteration Support for 10 Indian Languages to Show More Accurate Results

News 18  

Google Maps is improving its transliteration system to display better results when searched with native Indian scripts and not English. Google says that the new transliteration system will help many users who do not speak English, adding that most Indian places of interest on Google Maps are not available in regional language. Here?s how the company explains the problems faced …

Google strengthens language capabilities to drive internet adoption in India
4 years ago

Google strengthens language capabilities to drive internet adoption in India

The Hindu  

Google on Thursday said it is adding capabilities that will make it easier for people to get search results and navigate on Google Maps in additional Indian languages, and even learn how to solve math problems in Hindi. The addition of these features is part of Google's effort to solve challenges around consumption, communication and creation of content in local …

Google India L10n Event Live Updates: Google Maps Gets 9 Indian Languages, MuRIL Model Announced
4 years ago

Google India L10n Event Live Updates: Google Maps Gets 9 Indian Languages, MuRIL Model Announced

News 18  

Google India held a special L10n event earlier today, with clear focus on the company’s local language models. After the broader Google For India event earlier this year, the L10n event focused on smaller optimisation to various products that Google India will be rolling out. MuRIL will help develop machine language models faster for local languages, therefore improving Search, Assistant …

Google India announces new features across products to help users with regional languages
4 years ago

Google India announces new features across products to help users with regional languages

India Today  

Google India has announced a range of new features that will help users overcome the language barriers at the L10n event today. Convenient toggling between English and Indian languages: Formerly, Google helped users change any query typed into English to Hindi using the Hindi chip or tab. Now, users can toggle between English and Indian languages during Google Search with …

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