Google for India 2023 is about to kick off on Thursday and the search big is predicted to point out off improvements to synthetic intelligence (AI) and Web applied sciences at its annual occasion. The ninth version of Google for India might see the corporate announce particulars of its plans to enhance entry to Web in India, in addition to new AI instruments and functions which are geared toward customers in India. Google additionally works with native non-public and public companions and the corporate might announce new initiatives associated to digitisation and enhancing entry to data on-line this 12 months.
Google for India 2023 occasion date and find out how to watch the livestream
The corporate’s ninth Google for India occasion will start at 11am on October 19. The in-person occasion will probably be streamed reside by way of the Google India YouTube channel. You too can watch the livestream of the occasion by way of the participant embedded beneath.
Google for India 2023: What to anticipate
In a submit on X (previously often called Twitter) the corporate has shared a picture of a golden mannequin of the Indian House Analysis Organisation’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander and the Pragyan rover, alongside textual content that asserts the date of the following occasion. Google means that its bulletins will vary from “entry to Web, to success on the Web”.
Whereas we’re more likely to hear extra concerning the firm’s plans — and new applied sciences it plans to introduce over the approaching 12 months — on the occasion on Thursday, it’s price having a look at Google’s earlier bulletins over the previous couple of years.
Final 12 months, on the eighth version of Google for India, the search big unveiled a brand new ‘Multisearch’ characteristic that enables customers to mix a captured picture or a screenshot with a textual content question for much more refined outcomes. The search platform additionally acquired a brand new characteristic that allowed customers to look YouTube movies for particular moments. The corporate additionally introduced a characteristic to digitise medical doctors’ handwritten prescriptions on the occasion.
Google additionally introduced a characteristic that might enable customers in India to securely entry their paperwork in Digilocker by way of the Google Recordsdata app on their smartphone — these recordsdata are saved in an remoted setting on the person’s system and customers have to offer authentication to entry their paperwork, in keeping with the corporate.
In the meantime, on the Google for India 2021 occasion amid the pandemic, the corporate introduced a Google Assistant characteristic that might enable customers to e-book a vaccination slot by way of the CoWIN portal in English, Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu.
Throughout its seventh Google for India occasion, the corporate additionally introduced a brand new Hinglish language possibility for Google Pay that was geared toward making interacting with the app extra intuitive. A brand new invoice cut up possibility was additionally launched alongside a brand new speech to textual content characteristic that enables customers to enter fee quantities and account numbers utilizing their voice.
New climate options have been additionally introduced in the course of the firm’s 2021 occasion, together with the power to verify AQI ranges by way of Google search, getting climate alerts associated to excessive weather conditions, and forecasting floods — a part of the corporate’s Google Flood Forecasting Initiative.
We will count on the corporate to announce new methods to carry extra customers on-line and assist them get entry to the Web in the course of the Google for India 2023 occasion. These bulletins are anticipated to reach alongside the corporate’s AI options — focused at Indian customers — which are anticipated roll out to customers within the coming months.
