India Internet Bus Project launches

[naviarora2007]

For the last few years, Google India has worked to increase Internet usage in our country of a billion people via various products such as SMS Search , Voice Search, and Google Map Maker, translating our interfaces into Indian languages. We've also worked on numerous initiatives to increase the quality of search with useful local information like business listings, railways and flight status, and cricket scores. We've been witnessing a steady growth in Internet adoption, but as impatient observers, we wanted to do more to directly engage the offline population of India.

In that vein, earlier today, we announced the launch of the Internet Bus Project – a mobile bus designed to showcase the benefits of the Internet to the people across the cities of Tamil Nadu. We're aiming to reach out to people with limited exposure to the Internet, and the bus will cover numerous Tamil Nadu cities over the next month and a half.

The bus is designed to make a simple introduction to the Internet for a new user. With a focus on the four themes of education, information, communication, and entertainment, the Internet Bus will be loaded with useful and informative content in English and Tamil. We'll showcase how the Internet can make everyday life simple through services like search, email, social networking, maps and others.
We strongly believe the Internet is a great equalizing force, and this project represents another way Google is directly engaging with people in India.

We welcome you to visit the Internet Bus Project website at http://www.google.co.in/internetbus to see when the bus will visit your city, get regular updates, and view photos and videos as we travel around Tamil Nadu.




SOURCE : Latest Technology

[victor_rambo]

Idiots advertise their blogs this way.

[Dark Core]

^^


But it's a good news, Google Rockz

[virilecliffhanger]

Yeah! it ain't no news! gee

[Dark Core]

Google bus will visit my place at 23 FEB, hope I will get chance to atleast see them

[din]

Wondering how they manage internet in that bus. I see a dish antenna on top of the bus, but what technology it is ? Satellite internet ?

[x3060]

is it of any use ....cause i dont think we are gonna improve much on net side.

i hope they provide some 16mps connection inside , i've been dying to see one of those :-P.