"Instead of typing Hindi letters from an English
keyboard, netizens can handwrite on screen what they want to search on our
engine using our new Hindi tool, as the Internet can be used as easily as
reading and writing in the vernacular," Google India said in a statement
here.
In its quest to get about 300 million more Indian users
online, the company's geeks found that less than 10 percent of Internet usage
was in Indian languages, while in the real world the remaining 90 percent of
newspaper readers or television viewers were using the media in their
respective mother tongue.
"Our innovative tool makes accessing Internet in
Hindi simpler. Hindi-knowing netizens should be able to use their language in
the digital world to read and write as easily as they do offline," an official
said in the statement.
The software also enables Google users to search by
scribbling Hindi words with a finger or stylus on any digital device screen.
The tool can also be accessed on a mobile browser at
www.google.co.in. Once the feature is enabled, a user can activate the
handwrite icon on the screen to write letters in Devanagari for words or content
to be searched on the engine.
"The Hindi handwrite features have been a
collaboration between our teams across Zurich, Mountain View and Bangalore. Our
engineers are excited with the potential these methods of inputs have in
India," the statement added.
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