Google for India: WiFi at 100 Railway Stations, New Hyderabad Campus and More Hiring Announced

According to Wall Street Journal, Google is the world’s largest digital-advertising company posted $3.98 billion in net income for the quarter ended in September, up from $2.74 billion a year earlier.

Google doesn’t break out revenue or users by country, but for the past two years has made an average of roughly 45% of its sales in the U.S., 10% in the U.K. and 45% in the rest of the world, according to quarterly earnings reports.

Live updates from Sundar Pichai’s Google for India event below:

•  Chromebit to launch in India at Rs 7,999. Asus will launch the product by January 2016.
• A message received in Hindi can be copied and Google Translate will appear right inside WhatsApp and show translation
• Google will soon launch Tap to translate feature. It will launch next year.
• Google will crowd source the data for its translate feature. Translate via camera feature on Google Translate app will translate any sign pointed via camera into Hindi
• Google to run translateathon which will get people translate more words. It will expand beyond Hindi to Bengali, Punjabi and Marathi
• 1.4 billion Android users in the world and the mobile OS now supports 74 languages across the world
• Google will use fibre infrastructure for its super fast internet access at these railway stations
• Everyone in the world should have access to full and open internet – Marian Croak, VP for Access strategy and emerging markets, Google
• Google to introduce pause buffer feature soon allowing users to pause video, leave it to buffer, even leave the app or site and let it continue buffering – Eyal Manor
• Content uploaded on YouTube from India has also doubled – Eyal
• Time spent on YouTube growing at 150 percent in India, more than the worldwide growth.
• India loves YouTube, especially on mobile – Eyal Manor, VP of Engineering, YouTube
• More than a billion people use Google Maps for navigation. Mapping India has brought unique challenges and key learnings – Jen Fitzpatrick
• Google’s Delhi offline app gives real time information about transportation in the city 12.08 PM: Google Maps now supports turn by turn navigation even without Internet connection
• India ranks third in terms of local guides on Google Maps
• Jen Fitzpatrick talks about community mapping being essential to improve Google Maps
• Google Maps VP Jen Fitzpatrick on stage
• Google to launch improved versions of live cricket scores and replays on search early next year 11. 52 AM: Contextual Search demo – Google search will show users details about particular interest like a Bollywood actor.
• 50 percent of Indian internet users on 2G network with 3G users complaining of 2G like speeds. Google plans to fix that with Google AMP pages
• Tamar Yehoshua talks about Google’s Hindi keyboard input for Android. It allows users to type in English and texts appear in Hindi
• We need to make sure our products work across Indian languages and making search work across 2G networks – Tamar
• Tamar Yehoshua says its inspiring for Google to give access to all those who have never experienced internet before.
• Google Search VP Tamar Yehoshua on stage
• Sundar Pichai announces huge new Google campus in Hyderabad
• Sundar Pichai announces WiFi at 100 railway stations by December 2016. Mumbai Central will be first railway station to get WiFi
• Sundar Pichai refers to 2 million businesses using Google for Work productivity tools
• YouTube is now offline, Google Maps is offline. Sundar Pichai is talking about making next billion people access Internet with limited connectivity
• Sundar Pichai is referring to recently announced Google AMP pages which load four times faster
• Android keyboard will support 11 Indian languages. Sundar Pichai says search team in India has made pages lighter and they now load faster
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai on stage and starts with Android and its compatibility with many Indian languages
• Internet will become even more affordable to all these new users and Google will make internet more accessible to for the next billion Indians
• Internet access to Indians in their own language is the focus for Google in India
• Startup ecosystem flourishing, says Anandan. He sees 500 million internet users by 2017
• Over 150 million Indians connect to Internet via smartphones, says Anandan
• Most of Google’s top leadership is here. The focus is on making Internet accessible for the next generation of users, who won’t be English speakers
• Google India head Rajan Anandan takes stage before Pichai. Says this is the largest event of this kind for Google anywhere in the world.