Chennai (PTI): Google's social networking site , Orkut.com has become an integral part of Indians' lives, a top official of the company said on Friday.
"We are quite pleased with what we have seen with both the loyalty and usage of Orkut in India.It seems to have become a very central part of people's lives and we are very proud of the fact that people get value addition," Shailesh Rao, Managing Director, Google India told reporters on the sidelines of a management seminar here on Friday.
Rao said Google had launched several products in local languages in India."Today, on Orkut, the users can transliterate using an English keyboard into Hindi, can view Orkut content in multiple regional languages," he said.
The MD also said the company had a lot more work to do in India and "our time in India is much more ahead of us than behind us."
To a query if other social networking sites were beginning to eat away at Orkut's users, he said "In fact, we are quite pleased with how users are taking to all kinds of services on the internet including social networking. In India, what we require is more diversity, more services, more options, more experimentation, more innovation. So I think it is wonderful there are more platforms that Indians can use and experiment lots of things."
Rao said the company's Indian operations had the largest number of employees next only to its US operations.
He said India would be the focus country for the company to carry out product and service developments.
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