Google to lean heavier on R&D centre in B’lore

Google, the company which owns the popular web search engine of the same name, is looking at its Indian R&D centre in Bangalore to develop c...

Google, the company which owns the popular web search engine of the same name, is looking at its Indian R&D centre in Bangalore to develop complete products. The centre was set up six months back.

Centre Head, India R&D center, Krishna Bharat said the company would follow an ‘‘open culture’’ where engineers would define their own projects and ‘‘work on all aspects of engineering including research, project conception, implementation and deployment.’’

Sergey Brin, co-founder and president (Technology) Google, who was in Bangalore, said search engines are evolving. ‘‘New search dimensions like new way to search and new ways to present the results are being worked out,” he said.

Story continues below this ad

‘‘Traffic on Google comes globally, not only from the US. We are looking at fine-tuning the search for local use and working on expanding image search,’’ said Brin.

The company is also looking at Indian language-specific products. ‘‘Accessability of language on Internet is important. India is rich in language and this will help us develop a better product for east Asian scripts,’’ he said.

Brin said Google is working on translation of its search results. ‘‘It is a high-risk and high-reward area. We do provide translations in some languages, we are looking at extending this,’’ he said.

In 1998, Google had 30 million web pages, today it has crossed 4.2 billion web pages, said Larry Page co-founder and president (Products), at Google.

Story continues below this ad

‘‘Text is a huge area for search, it is easy and efficient. Along with this, we are working on speech, image and multimedia content search,’’ he stressed.

Apart from Bangalore, Google has engineering facilities in Mountain View, Santa Monica, Zurich, New York, Tokyo and a centre in Northern China in being planned.