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Here are the top 10 big announcements from Google for India 2022 event that you should know


Pritish Bagdi

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  1. Multi Search in Google Lens: On Google Lens, you can now add text in addition to images. You will achieve the desired goals faster as a result. For instance, even though your photo is of a dress, it may appear to the uninitiated as a piece of fabric because of the manner it was taken. To tell Google Lens that this piece of clothing is a dress, write “dress.”

  2. Search in Video for YouTube: Just below the YouTube video frame, there will be a “Search in Video” option. You can use the video “How to Save on Online Medicine Ordering?” as an example to choose platforms that are appropriate for you.

  3. Improved Hinglish Speech Recognition: Given the growth of voice search and its promising future, Google has improved Hinglish speech recognition. This capability will be incredibly helpful going forward as voice search among Hindi-speaking users grows in popularity.

  4. DigiLocker access in Files by Google: All of your DigiLocker documents are now accessible through the Files by Google app. The software also includes family spaces to separate the documents of various family members. To open, the lock screen must be unlocked.

  5. Google Pay – Google has utilized a “deep learning” technology to improve the fraud detection capabilities of Google Pay. It uses its AI algorithms to analyse transaction patterns to look for potential fraud. Google Pay will notify you via notice and vibration if you encounter such a situation.

  6. Google Translator: Google Search will now translate webpages to the preferred Indian language based on the search query

  7. Google Certifications: In partnership with Coursera has announced new Career Certificates for IT Automation, Project Management, Data Analytics, and UX Design.

  8. Google partnership – Google has partnered with Byju’s to make learning easier for students with the Practice Problem feature on Search for subjects such as Maths, Physics, and Chemistry.

  9. Partnership with Pollution Control – It has partnered with Pollution Control Board & IMD to bring the latest Air Quality Information and Weather Alerts to Google.

  10. Helps Merchants – To help merchants, Google has announced MyShop, where merchants using Gpay can easily add images, descriptions, and prices of their business.

Big announcements from the ‘Google For India 2022’ event are exciting everyone. Company officials from Google announced several new products, projects, and innovations at its annual Google for India event. In conversation with Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Railways, Meity, and Communications, CEO Sundar Pichai was also present on stage. To advance India’s digital economy, Google company unveiled new AI-based solutions and several new relationships with Indian brands.

Google Cloud’s Bikram Bedi took the podium to discuss the cloud computing services offered by the company. Elizabeth Reid, Google’s VP of search, succeeded Bedi. Following Reid, the managing director of YouTube India, Ishan John Chatterjee, discussed YouTube Courses. Google VP Royal Hansen took the stage after Chatterjee in Google for India 2022 event. The event’s opening remarks were given by Sanjay Gupta, president of Google India, who discussed the company’s plans to invest in women-led businesses and its India Digitization Fund 2020. Director of Google Research India Manish Gupta discussed the company’s initiatives to provide AI solutions for the nation.



While live and aerial view have already been rolled out, eco-friendly routing will be available to developers later this year

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Google last week shared that it will be bringing four new features to Google maps. These updates, according to the company’s blog, will include features like the addition of aerial views of 250 plus landmarks across the work, improvements to live view and nearby search and addition of eco-friendly routing for delivery and ride sharing companies.


Updates to nearby search or “neighborhood vibe feature” will give users the chance to select a neighbourhood and see the most popular spots. These will be represented with images right within the Google Maps app. This will also include 250 photorealistic aerial views of global landmarks across the globe. The addition of an aerial view is part of the immersive view that Google announced at its I/O event held earlier this year.

The immersive view will use predictive modelling to learn the historical trends of a place to provide users with the information they might need to plan their visit around these landmarks. In live view, the updates will add a search with a live view which will be used to find more information for areas around users. This information will include ATMs, coffee shops, grocery stores, and transit stations. It will also include information like business hours and how busy a place is during different times of the day.

Search with a live view will initially be rolled out starting with cities like London, New York, San Francisco, Paris, and Tokyo in the coming months on Android and iOS.

Google also shared that its eco-friendly routing was recently launched in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Eco-friendly routing, according to the company’s blog, helps users choose the most fuel-efficient routes using data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the European Environment Agency.

The company also shared that this feature will allow delivery and read-sharing service providers to measure fuel consumption and savings in single trips for a vehicle as well as measure these metrics for their entire fields.

Additionally, the feature rolling out for developers later this year will allow them to select engine types to get more accurate energy efficiency estimates.


New Delhi [India] August 5: Bharti Airtel on Thursday announced it will partner with Google Cloud and Cisco to launch 'Airtel Office Internet' - a unified enterprise-grade solution for emerging digital connectivity needs of small businesses, SOHOs and early-stage tech start-ups.

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In a regulatory filing, the company said that Airtel Office Internet will provide users secure high-speed data connectivity, conferencing and business productivity tools as a unified solution with one plan and one bill. More than ever, emerging businesses across India are looking for reliable connectivity and digital productivity tools that enhance their agility, efficiency and enable them to serve their customers better. Importantly, these businesses want to access these solutions with the convenience of a single relationship. Among the services that Airtel Office Internet will provide FTTH broadband with symmetric speeds up to 1 Gbps along with unlimited local/STD calling. The superfast and reliable connectivity comes with built-in enterprise-grade security from Cisco and Kaspersky to block malicious and unwanted domains, viruses, crypto-lockers and attacks. It will also provide Complimentary Google Workspace licenses that allow businesses to use Gmail for all professional email communication along with an entire range of productivity and collaboration tools from Google. With growing requirements for video conferencing, Airtel Office Internet also offers a free Airtel BlueJeans license for unlimited and secure conferencing with HD quality. I

t will provide digital self-serve portal for businesses to manage all these services at one place. Plans start at Rs. 999 with a range of add-on services like Static IPs and parallel ringing. Ajay Chitkara, Director and CEO, Airtel Business said: "The pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation journeys of businesses of all sizes. Emerging businesses are looking for trusted partners to help them in their journeys by eliminating the complexity of managing multiple relationships. Airtel Office Internet is yet another innovation from Airtel in this direction. It brings together Airtel's network and world-class partner ecosystem to bring to market tailor-made solutions for India's unique needs." Bikram Singh Bedi, Managing Director at Google Cloud India said, "Telecommunications firms are increasingly differentiating by offering a wide range of tools that are helping Indian businesses accelerate their digital transformation with the cloud.

The combination of Google Workspace's collaboration and productivity tools combined with Airtel's robust pan-India connectivity solutions will be a great growth enabler for small businesses in India." Daisy Chittilapilly, President, Cisco India & SAARC, said, "As the threat landscape grows exponentially, cybersecurity becomes an urgent challenge for any business, regardless of size. This is particularly true for small businesses, given that they typically operate with limited resources and investments. Our partnership with Airtel is built on our joint vision of enabling enterprise-grade security for small businesses, grounded in AI and automation, so they can focus on areas that will have the biggest impact on their recovery and growth."


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