Just last week I was talking about India Ecommerce and during the time Google has taken giant step. I am sure that was not due to my article. Smile. Google is going to  provide free website for Indian SMEs (Small & Medium Enterprise) Industries. There are nearly 8 million SMEs in India and very few is having their online presence. Google is planning to hit aprox 5,00,000 companies with in first year. This campaign is known as “India get your business online”.

Who is behind India Get Online ?

This campaign is lead by Google but HostGator is playing major roll in this as well. Those who don’t know about HostGator, I would love to inform that, HostGator is one of the Biggest Hosting Provider and having office in USA as well as HostGator started operation in India too. ICICI Bank is also backing this initiative. Many of you must be knowing that ICICI Bank is second largest bank of India. They also have FISME as their Partner for this initiative. FISME is the national federation of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)

What SMEs will get ?

Well ! You should not bother what you will get as you you are getting is free. Hey ! don’t get angry I was just joking. Let’s keep joke apart. The following this you will get for make your life better.

• Free .in domain (valid for one year)
• Free & Easy to build Website.
• Hosting for 1 Year
• Free Email ID (Google Apps. )
• And What else you want ? I guess all covered.

What things need to get this offer ?

Well ! First of all let me be clear that this offer is only for Indian Business. So this will be prime requirement that you should be Indian business unit with following things mention bellow.

All you need any one of following document.

• Permanant Account Number (PAN)
• Tax Deduction Account Number (TAN)
• Corporate Identify Number (CIN)

Will it change India’s online Business ?

You can read above title as my thoughts about Indian get Online.

If you just want to check my answer in YES or NO then I will say, YES, this will make BIG impact on India’s SMEs segment. As it is free and they are claiming that It will make site in just 15 min, people will sure give a try. Partners like ICICI Bank and FISME are having very good network in India. Google it self is one of the Biggest brand for India and it covers nearly 85% share in Search Engine.

Even many SMEs are want to be online and looking for cheap options for website (that’ why Internet Marketing Consultant sometimes suffers too ) but on personal front I must say this will give new way of thinking to SMEs too.

In nut shell all will won. Google, ICICI Group or HostGator will have strong roots in India.

What will Google or Partners Earn / Gain out of It ?

If you are thinking on monitory aspect they might not earn much or even they might not earn single penny for first year.

• They (Google) are suggesting almost all tools to SMEs like
• Google Local (Maps)
• Google Adwords
• Google Analytics
• Google Webmasters
• Hostgator start earning renewal from next year. Even for first year .in domain cost Rs. 99 to individuals so It will be not much cost compare to reach hostgator will gain.
• ICICI Bank will gain surely more database and direct reach to SMEs.
• Google will get more database for Google Places and this time it will be more perfect compare to other sources.
• Google will have more opportunity to gain more Adwords customers in future.

I guess you should at least give a try to this. What’s your comment about this ?

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While Surfing I just come to know that Google is having one more company at his plate. This time Picnik, Online Photo Editing Site. Few months back Google acquire reCAPTCHA.

For People who are not knowing what is Picnik

Picnik is a fast, fun, easy to use and powerful set of photo editing tools for editing, sharing and printing images using any internet browser on any computer platform. Picnik is integrated with a wide variety of websites like Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo! Mail and Photobucket. With Picnik, you can edit your photos wherever they are from wherever you are.

Why Google acquire Picnik ? (in their own word – from their blog)

We’re very impressed with the Picnik team and the product they’ve created, and we’re excited to welcome them to Google. We’re looking forward to collaborating closely with them to improve the online photo editing experience on the web. In the meantime, we encourage you to head to Picnik, import some of your photos from Picasa Web Albums, Flickr or Facebook and try your hand at photo editing in the cloud!

Check official announcement at Googles Blog and Picnik blog

Google is threatening to close its operations in China after what it said were a series of cyberattacks aimed at the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

The company said last night that it had detected a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China”. Further investigation showed that “a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists”. Google said that at least 20 other large companies from a range of businesses had been similarly targeted.

Google did not accuse the Chinese Government directly. However, the company added that it was “no longer willing to continue censoring our results” on its Chinese search engine, as the Government requires. Google said the decision could force it to close its Chinese site and offices in the country.

The internet giant believes that the attack was mostly blocked and that only minor information, such as creation dates and subject lines, were stolen from two accounts. It said that the investigation showed that accounts of dozens of China human rights activists using Gmail in Europe, China or the US had been “routinely accessed” using malware (malicious software).

Google first agreed to censor search results in China in 2006 when it created a version of its search engine bearing China’s web suffix, “.cn.” Previously, Chinese-language results had been available through the company’s main Google.com site.

To obtain its Chinese licence, Google agreed to omit web content that the Government found objectionable. At the time Google executives said they struggled to reconcile this concession with the company’s motto of “don’t be evil”.

By then Yahoo! had come under fire for giving the Chinese Government account information of a journalist who was later convicted for violating state secrecy laws.

David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, said: “These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered — combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web — have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese Government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all.”

The 20 other large companies attacked include finance, internet, media, technology, and chemical businesses, according to Google.

“We are currently in the process of notifying those companies, and we are also working with the relevant US authorities,” Mr Drummond said.

Mr Drummond said Google accepted that defying the Government’s demands about filtering internet search engine results may mean having to shut down its operations.

With an estimated 360 million internet users, China has a bigger online population than any other country. But the ruling Communist Party worries the internet could become a dangerous conduit for threatening images and ideas.

If Google were to pull out it would be a severe reversal for the internet search company which has endured sustained criticism for its policy in China.

Google set up in China in January 2006 and agreed to comply with the Government’s “Great Firewall”. This meant that whenever people in China searched for banned Chinese keywords, a warning came up that “In accordance with local laws, regulations and policies, part of the search result is not shown.”

The company argued that it was better to be in China to make most information available rather than not have its service available at all and that it could play a role more useful to the cause of free speech by participating in China’s IT industry.

Source : timesonline.co.uk

New relationship with telecom giant AIRTEL and Micro blogging king Twitter will be rock many Indian. Twitter  announced partnership with Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel. I can proudly say that I am Airtel Customer and now I can express my self by Twitting too.

Now subscribers of Airtel by just texting can send their tweets at standard message rates without internet connections. Give Twitter a try with your Airtel phone by sending START to 53000.

You can check more FAQ at Aitel Official announcement

Twitter is sharing It’s experience about India on their blog

Twitter is not about technology, it’s about people. We worked quickly to establish full SMS service in India with the largest operator because organic growth in the region has been unusually strong and there is huge potential for positive impact. India already shines brightly with Twitter advocates like film stars Priyanka Chopra @priyankachopra Gul Panag @gulpanag, and Mallika

Sherawat @mallikala, director Karan Johar @kjohar25, Minister of State Shashi Tharoor @shashitharoor, upper house member Pritish Nandy @pritishnandy, news anchors Barkha Dutt @bdutt and Vir Sanghvi @virsanghvi, plus media outlets MTV India @MTVindia and NDTV @ndtv just to name a few.

Despite growing global awareness, Twitter has under 80 employees altogether but our little mobile team packs a punch. Kevin Thau with help from Tim Huske have built a mobile team of six people within Twitter and they’ve made considerable strides bringing full SMS service to the US, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and now India. As long as you keep asking for Twitter, we’ll keep working to activate full service in your region with no extra charges. Don’t forget to activate your mobile—visit the Devices page or text START to Twitter.

You can check original Post at Twiiter Blog

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In 1996, Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page famously started the search  company in a Stanford dorm room. The two eventually moved the company to a Menlo Park garage, which the company quickly outgrew. Sun Microsystems founder Andy Bechtolsheim was the company’s first investor with other notable investors including Ron Conway, John Doerr, Mike Moritz and Ram Shriram.

Now Google is such a giant company. Number one search engine with highest market share. Google is having best vision for acquiring company. Till now Google had acquire many companies like Orkut, You Tube, Feed Burner, Double click and some more. Now this thing extended up to reCAPTCHA. Google has officially announcer that they had acquire reCAPTCHA.

Check following text from Google’s own Blog.

we’re excited to welcome the reCAPTCHA team to Google, and we’re committed to delivering the same high level of performance that websites using reCAPTCHA have come to expect. Improving the availability and accessibility of all the information on the Internet is really important to us, so we’re looking forward to advancing this technology with the reCAPTCHA team.

You can check official Google Post : Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA