According to the official Google India Blog, We are happy to announce the launch of a new feature, Transliteration Bookmarklets, that will let you use transliteration on a website that does not support it currently. Transliteration Bookmarklets is a browser-based application that lets you type in your language in any text box on any website […]
Indian Languages
Indian language keyboard options
One of the things I often hear from the VC world about the Indian language space is that UGC is lacking, and entering text in languages is difficult. Regarding UGC, all I would say is that Oneindia.in has seen a growth in language UGC (comments, article contributions, feedback emails). Indian Language Fonts Every language, including English, has […]
Gmail starts supporting Indian languages
Gmail supporting Indian languages is a big boost to the Indic space.
Only 13% of existing internet users in India prefer to read in English
Research by Juxt shows majority of internet users prefer their local language over English.
Hindi newspapers have the highest growth rate
According to “Hindi Dailies With Local News Rule The Roost” India has almost 1,000 Hindi Dailies with a circulation of 80 million copies India has 250 English Dailies with a circulation of 40 million copies Hindi newspapers enjoy the highest growth rate. Reasons: increase in literacy levels and penetration of newspapers into smaller markets Stock […]