India Ahead of Japan & China in Google Search Trends

July 7th, 2006 Google has passed Microsoft in popularity since beginning of 2005. What is even more surprising is their rate of growth and slow decline of Microsoft.

May 19th, 2007 The latest Google search Trends (picture below) shows WordPress ahead of Blogger. Typepad and Movable Type are far behind and in decline.

March 10th, 2008 It was well known that there is a significant amount of Java development in Bangalore these days. However it took me by surprise to find that it may actually be a world leader in terms of amount of Java and India too as a country.

February 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - India can rightly be called the back office of the world for its achievements in Information Technology (IT) and IT-enabled services, Chinese Consul General in Kolkata Mao Siwei said Sunday. 'Now China is called the 'factory of the world,' while India the 'back office of the world'.

May 23rd, 2006 They say a picture is worth thousand words. Let the picture speak for itself.

September 3rd, 2009 Executive who led Google's China expansion leavingBEIJING — The executive who led Google Inc.'s expansion in China after being hired away from Microsoft Corp. following a high-profile court battle is leaving to start his own business, the U.S.

August 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Google, the popular search engine, on Saturday conceded to have erroneously depicted some areas of Arunachal Pradesh as being parts of China following a processing of routine update of new map data on the Google Earth. It stated the mistake would be rectified soon.

September 24th, 2007 A simple google search reveals over 55.5 million pages are generated using WordPress today. The WordPress search volume shows a healthy increase over time as can be seen from the graph.

July 9th, 2006 Nowadays it is common to complain about the accuracy of Google web search results (not image search as I have done in my earlier post). Most of the people complaining about Google web search are SEO types and those who have been affected by sudden lack of Google love.

November 12th, 2005 Talent shortage will impede the development of China's outsourcing industry, despite the optimistic prediction on China's IT outsourcing industry in the coming ten years predicted Qu Zhonghua, a senior program manager of IBM China's Shenzhen branch, at the 11th Joint International Computer Conference (JICC 2005) held in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. The rapid growth of the global outsourcing industry has provided opportunities for China's outsourcing industry in recent years, but the opportunities will not turn into successes if the country fails to provide sufficient qualified workforce, he said.

March 12th, 2005 It is of much regret that the ban on human cloning has been passed in the UN, however symbolic it may be. My heartfelt support goes to the following countries for their opposition to the ban.

August 21st, 2006 A Chinese blogger finds Google.com inaccessible around 60% of the time whereas Google.cn is perfectly accessible. Is it coincidence or intetnional? Is Google intentionally blocking Google.com in China and providing intermittent access instead of outright banning to prevent backlash from internet community & activists.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The excitement of the Indian elections has transferred online to one of its most popular social messaging sites - Twitter - where it emerged as the top topic posted Saturday. The Twitter tag '#indiavotes09' was the number one topic on the trends list of Twitter search, demonstrating once again the strength of Indians using these new technology tools.

September 23rd, 2009 Baidu CEO draws big crowd in Google's backyardPALO ALTO, Calif. — The billionaire founder of a popular search engine drew a big crowd Wednesday at Stanford University — and it wasn't one of the guys that started Google Inc.

January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.