Google’s Chennai-born CEO Sundar Pichai said on Wednesday: “What inspired me to join Google was the fact that Google search worked the same whether you were a Stanford professor or a poor kid in a small Indian city.”.
“A lot of what today is about is how we build products for the next billion Indian users yet to come online,” Pichai said while delivering a keynote address at the Google for India event in New Delhi.
Pichai is in India along with eight Google vice-presidents, including those for Search, YouTube, Maps, and Android among others.
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He elaborated on the main aspects to Google’s approach: “Bringing access to people. Everything else is meaningless without that. Make sure our products are working for them in a meaningful way when people come online, we don’t want them to just consume, we want them to add their voice to it”.
Pichai, who became Google’s top boss in August after the company became part of a larger firm known as Alphabet Inc, is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley and telecommunications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad later in the day, sources told Hindustan Times.
He will also interact with students at an event at the Capital’s Sri Ram College of Commerce on Thursday.
Pichai had met PM Modi in September during the latter’s visit to the Silicon Valley. Since then the company has announced a number of India-specific initiatives like providing free WiFi at 500 railway stations in the country, letting users type in 11 Indian languages on their phones and allowing them to download YouTube videos and watch them offline.
Last year, Pichai visited India to launch Android One, a program in which the world’s largest search engine partnered with Indian handset makers Spice, Micromax and Karbonn (and later Lava) to sell low-cost $100 devices that ran the latest version of Android.
The Android One phones supported seven Indian languages out of the box, including for dictation and voice commands. They also feature local news publications and magazines in the Google Play Newsstand.
Android One eventually rolled out in 11 countries, but it never really took off. Google sold about three million Android One phones in all but negligible compared to the growth of Android around the world. Google, however, is tight-lipped about plans to reboot Android One.
The Mountain View-based company has also been silent on net neutrality, a polarising issue that has been the subject of fierce debate in India this year. Google supports net neutrality in the United States but it has not said that publicly in India.
A report in the Economic Times said that the company was planning to roll out its own Free Basics-like zero-rated service in India but put on the back-burner after seeing the backlash against Facebook’s Internet.org.
The 43-year-old alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, is the latest technology leader to visit India over the last 12 months after Alibaba’s chairperson Jack Ma, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
A couple of months ago, Sundar Pichai took over responsibility from Larry Page and Sergei Brin to head Google. And that meant a big deal. Google continues to stay what it was. But the group went on to become Alphabet, which includes many other business units that have always existed within Google. Prior to the renaming, Pichai was the chief of Android, a product that was earlier managed by its inventor Andy Rubin.
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On his promotion, he was congratulated by PM Modi, Tim Cook and Satya Nadella among other prominent personalities. All through the years, as chief of Android within Google, we didn’t hear much about Pichai, but for the ChromeOS, Chromebooks and recently Android releases at IO, the annual developer conference, which has had greater emphasis on the direction Android would take over the coming year.
In all the years Pichai spent at Google, he maintained a rather low profile, and we hadn’t heard too much of him. From the geek, Pichai has successfully transformed himself to a business leader. And as expected by an able business leader, he’s taking every possible opportunity to harness growth. Google’s growth!
So when Zuckerberg wrote about being welcoming towards Muslims, Pichai did echo the same sentiment and spoke about intolerance. Well, intolerance in India is much more vocal debate compared to the United States. Since India is witnessing improvement in the ‘ease of doing business’, it is prudent to engage effectively with the Indian leadership at this opportune moment to secure as much fillip as possible to further its market reach.
“A lot of what today is about is how we build products for the next billion Indian users yet to come online,” Pichai said while delivering a keynote address at the Google for India event in New Delhi.
Pichai is in India along with eight Google vice-presidents, including those for Search, YouTube, Maps, and Android among others.
http://www.mapleprimes.com/users/backlinksor
He elaborated on the main aspects to Google’s approach: “Bringing access to people. Everything else is meaningless without that. Make sure our products are working for them in a meaningful way when people come online, we don’t want them to just consume, we want them to add their voice to it”.
Pichai, who became Google’s top boss in August after the company became part of a larger firm known as Alphabet Inc, is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley and telecommunications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad later in the day, sources told Hindustan Times.
He will also interact with students at an event at the Capital’s Sri Ram College of Commerce on Thursday.
Pichai had met PM Modi in September during the latter’s visit to the Silicon Valley. Since then the company has announced a number of India-specific initiatives like providing free WiFi at 500 railway stations in the country, letting users type in 11 Indian languages on their phones and allowing them to download YouTube videos and watch them offline.
Last year, Pichai visited India to launch Android One, a program in which the world’s largest search engine partnered with Indian handset makers Spice, Micromax and Karbonn (and later Lava) to sell low-cost $100 devices that ran the latest version of Android.
The Android One phones supported seven Indian languages out of the box, including for dictation and voice commands. They also feature local news publications and magazines in the Google Play Newsstand.
Android One eventually rolled out in 11 countries, but it never really took off. Google sold about three million Android One phones in all but negligible compared to the growth of Android around the world. Google, however, is tight-lipped about plans to reboot Android One.
The Mountain View-based company has also been silent on net neutrality, a polarising issue that has been the subject of fierce debate in India this year. Google supports net neutrality in the United States but it has not said that publicly in India.
A report in the Economic Times said that the company was planning to roll out its own Free Basics-like zero-rated service in India but put on the back-burner after seeing the backlash against Facebook’s Internet.org.
The 43-year-old alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, is the latest technology leader to visit India over the last 12 months after Alibaba’s chairperson Jack Ma, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
A couple of months ago, Sundar Pichai took over responsibility from Larry Page and Sergei Brin to head Google. And that meant a big deal. Google continues to stay what it was. But the group went on to become Alphabet, which includes many other business units that have always existed within Google. Prior to the renaming, Pichai was the chief of Android, a product that was earlier managed by its inventor Andy Rubin.
http://wittwertrainingsystems.com/forum/discussion/317269/why-you-desire-to-understand-link-building-basics-for-video-marketing
On his promotion, he was congratulated by PM Modi, Tim Cook and Satya Nadella among other prominent personalities. All through the years, as chief of Android within Google, we didn’t hear much about Pichai, but for the ChromeOS, Chromebooks and recently Android releases at IO, the annual developer conference, which has had greater emphasis on the direction Android would take over the coming year.
In all the years Pichai spent at Google, he maintained a rather low profile, and we hadn’t heard too much of him. From the geek, Pichai has successfully transformed himself to a business leader. And as expected by an able business leader, he’s taking every possible opportunity to harness growth. Google’s growth!
So when Zuckerberg wrote about being welcoming towards Muslims, Pichai did echo the same sentiment and spoke about intolerance. Well, intolerance in India is much more vocal debate compared to the United States. Since India is witnessing improvement in the ‘ease of doing business’, it is prudent to engage effectively with the Indian leadership at this opportune moment to secure as much fillip as possible to further its market reach.
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