Showing posts with label Google India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google India. Show all posts

Friday, 11 November 2016

Anvita Prashant Telang is the national winner of the contest "Doodle 4 Google"




Anvita Prashant Telang, eleven years old, has been named national winner of the contest "Doodle 4 Google". The sixth standard Vibgyor High School student in the Balewadi area was chosen for her Doodle presentation on the subject titled "If I Could Teach Anyone Anything, It Would Be". The Doodle will be featured on Google India's home page on November 14 to celebrate Children's Day.

"With the 'Doodle 4 Google' competition, our goal is to promote creativity, passion and imagination in younger users. We congratulate Anvita for being considered the winner this year," said Sapna Chadha, head of marketing for Google India , In a statement. Tickets that came from more than 50 cities across the country were evaluated for artistic merit, creativity and thematic communication, as well as their unique and novel approach to Doodle. Doodle represents greeneries, water, water life, balloons, making it a lovely vibrant image.




This comes after an elaborate call for voting for the finalists announced for the 8th Doodle 4 Google Event. The finalists went through two rounds of judges, first by school judges and then by national judges comprising art director Savio Mascarenhas, Google Doodler chief Ryan Germick, cartoonist Ajit Ninan and Creative Rob.




Thursday, 3 November 2016

Google yet receive policy permission from government to launch Street View service in India




Google has yet to receive permits, mainly in front of politics, to launch its Street View feature in India, Sanket Gupta, Google Maps, Google Maps, said here on Thursday. Street View allows users to explore places of global concern, discover natural wonders and walk into places like museums, stadiums, parks and transportation hubs. In the immediate neighborhood of India, countries like Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have it in South Asia, while in southeastern Indonesia, and Japan they are deployed, Gupta said.

"So far we have been unable to obtain permits. Discussions are still going on that front. It's more a decision on the side of politics that we could not obtain permits. Technically, we only need cameras and cars," Gupta told the media communication here. With more than 5,000 cities and six lakh villages in India charted, the company aims to develop more relevant characteristics for the country.

"There are certain characteristics that are especially relevant for India and the country has inspired the development of such features and many are now available worldwide." "The characteristic of the indications we have developed for India and India has been launched in other countries. We will launch in Indonesia. Then we have the program" Named Intersections "and local guides. The feature maps offline was inspired India, "Gupta said.

India is among the five countries that use offline maps today. "We are also trying to explore the association with railroads for train travel data in real time, but do not have a timeline on that," said Gupta.