India To Get A 30 Percent Faster Google Soon
Google began to search the locations for its data centers in Asia in 2007 and considered sites in Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, India and Vietnam. Outside Asia, Google has seven data centers in the US, and one each in Finland, Belgium and Ireland.
Though India was on the list for data centers, Google did not choose the country blaming its hot weather conditions according to Katragadda.
India is ranked 112th globally in internet speed, according to Akamai Technologies, a web-based content delivery firm.
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India is one of the largest markets for Google with over 100 million users, and according to StatCounter, a research firm, Google accounts to 95 percent of India’s internet search market. Over the next three years, Google expects 500 million internet users from emerging markets to come online as against just about 15 million from the United States.
An average Indian user spends about 2.5 hours every day on Google websites, including Gmail, Google+, YouTube and others according to web analytics firm comScore. YouTube with 35 million users in India takes the crown for the highest share of time spent on any Google property in 2011. YouTube videos account for close to 50 percent of all online videos watched in India.
