Search giant Google has announced the creation of a new Hindi-language website in an ambitious bid to add 300 million Indian internet users by 2017 and bridge the country's linguistic digital divide. The website, www.hindiweb.com, featuring a new Hindi-language voice search and Hindi keyboard, are part of Google's push to incorporate more Indian languages into content in the next few years. Google said that nearly all of India's 198 million English speakers are already online. Now, Google is targeting the approximately 1 billion people who do not speak English, starting with Hindi, which is listed by 41 percent of the 1.2 billion population as their mother tongue, according to census data.
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