Some of the top officials of Google flew down to New Delhi to discuss the company's plans for India and give a lowdown of their various efforts in the country. The company plans to hire more engineers in India, open a new campus in Hyderabad, train 2 million Android developers and bring more people in India online through initiatives such as Project Loon. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, said that the company is barely scratching the surface when it comes to bringing more Indians online. The following snippets are a part of Google's Google for India event that happened earlier today. Maps - India is one of the top 5 countries using offline maps. - Google Offline Maps also work in case of intermittent connectivity. - Google will expand its landmark-based directions on Maps, which was started in India, to other markets as well. - 51 countries now use Google's Mapmaker which started in India Public WiFi Access - Mumbai Central is likely to be the first station with WiFi in January 2016. - Download speeds much faster than average speed in India, says Gulzar Azad. - But more people use it, speeds go down. So they have to work on access points says Marian Croak. - Marian Croak: India will have first WiFi enabled station in January 2016. 99 more will be added through the year. - Speeds at these public Wifis at railway stations will be faster than the average speeds in India. - "It is not our intention to provide a walled-garden to use only Google applications,"…
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