DEITY Launches Indian Search by Angela Guess.
From the post:
Tech2 reports, “The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY) unveiled Internet search engine, Sandhan, yesterday to assist users searching for tourism-related information across websites. Sandhan will provide search results to user queries in five Indian languages – Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu.
[Which further quotes Tech2:] With this service, the government aims to plug the wide gap that exists ’in fulfilling the information needs of Indians not conversant with English- estimated at 90 percent of the population’.
Let’s see: 1,220,200,000 (Wikipedia, Demographics of India, 2012 estimated population) x 90% (not conversant with English) = Potential consumer population of 1,098,180,000.
In case you are curious:
1,344,130,000 (Demographics of China, 2012 estimated population) is reported to have two hundred and ninety-two (292) living languages.
503,500,000 (Demographics of EU, 2012 estimated population) has twenty-three (23) official languages.
Wikiipedia has two hundred and eighty-five (285) different language editions.
No shortage of need, question is who has enough to gain to pay the cost of mapping?
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