Google Proposes Hosting Bengali Literature And Movies
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is planning to host Bengali movies on YouTube as well as post literary works of renowned novelists on the web. As per the release, West Bengal IT Minister Debesh Das is quoted as stating Google has evinced an interest to include Bengali classical literature and movies in its web-based applications. Google already has a Bangla version of search.
The books will presumably be searchable through Google’s controversial Book Search project. It already indexes English texts on popular Bengali writers such as Tagore. This could possibly be the first of a much larger effort to digitize and make searchable large troves of India’s multi-lingual literature, most of which must be long out-of-print. Nothing special about the movies, they will be hosted on YouTube. I guess there will be better edits and deeper content if the proposal takes shape, otherwise, there is already plenty of Bengali content out there.
As an interesting aside, Google has offered to maintain mail accounts of all ministers and top state government officials. I can only imagine the kind of ads GMail would throw up.
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Comments (5)
Jul 21, 2008 10:37 AM
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Jul 21, 2008 3:23 PM
Hey content owners .... first time google is asking or proposing to have content on its site ...........huh ? couldnt understand ....
trust me you dont need permission go ahead indian content owners dont understand technology ........seriously ....
as such all the movies are available on your platform
interesting something for marathi audience .... http://www.marathitube.com which again links to youtube .....
so u already have marathi movies also ....
and others also ....
Indian would take time to understand ....
and one more thing .... the people who do piracy are more intelligent then the people who are digital heads ...
it is proven record ... Do piracy and then the content owners would realise that there is a platform on the medium lets file a suit on them and make it legal .....
Jul 22, 2008 1:26 AM
Good blogging style Cerius - Not many bloggers out there showing the witty style you have be it with Subject Headlines or with Content :)
Seriously!
Jan 6, 2009 9:11 AM
its a very big news, google so far has been quite subdued in India, this move will put it right in the limelight - maybe some big deals with indian movie house could follow
Mar 12, 2009 6:28 AM
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