It's our hope that this will make Tamil content more popular

This product is motivated by the spirit of information democracy, where people can create information that are moderated and consumed by their peers.Today, we are bringing home this innovation by launching Google Map Maker in India, which has already been deployed in 57 other countries.We hope Google Map Maker will result in rich local data which will benefit Google users both on the web and moncler quincy jacket chocolate brown nylon on mobile. The creation of base maps where there were previously none will encourage many mashups, mapplets and other cool applications that make use of this data. We're also excited to see Google Map Maker create a new breed of local map experts who bring their passion for their neighborhoods and communities into the online world, adding to local commerce, tourism and investment.I will leave you with a map of IIT Bombay, the alma mater to many of us in Google India. When I spent a few hours mapping IIT Bombay -- the place I lived in, the school I went to, and the streets I played on, it turned out to be a surprisingly satisfying experience that reconnected me to a place that is home to many of my memories. We hope you will find the Google Map Maker experience as fun and fulfilling as we do.Posted by Lalitesh Katragadda, Software Engineer and creator, Google Map Maker moncler quincy jacket black nylon The global nature of our mission is reflected in the phrases the "world's information" and "universally accessible." To this end, you may have recently read about our 40-language initiative and the story of a community coming together to develop Google search in the Maori language.Following on this theme, we'd like to highlight a few new products that enable a better online experience for Tamil speakers around the world.First, we just released Google News in Tamil. Like other Google News editions, we gather stories from the various Tamil news sources on the web and present an automatically- generated summary with links to the most important stories in each section.We recognize that it can sometimes be hard to enter Tamil text with existing keyboards. Our transliteration technology enables the conversion from English text to phonetically equivalent text in Indian languages. For example, using transliteration, you could type "vanakkam" and we would convert it to Tamil script as ??? We have embedded this technology in several Google products to make it easier to enter text in Tamil.Google moncler badia jacket dark black search in Tamil enables users to start typing in English and automatically get query suggestions in Tamil. If you wanted to enter the query "ponniyin selvan" in Tamil, just start typing it in English - e.g. "ponni" and we will show the Tamil suggestions:Tamil transliteration in Blogger is designed for bloggers publishing content in Tamil when using the English keyboard for text entry. and more easily available online.Tamil transliteration in orkut makes it easier to communicate with friends and family by exchanging scraps in Tamil.We hope that each of these products will help to bring the benefits of the Internet to the millions of Tamil speakers in India and elsewhere.Posted by Vinodh Kumar R and Naren Manappa, Software Engineers