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India's search behavior key in shaping future of search business: Google VP

India's unique search behavior is a key factor in influencing the future of Google's search business, according to Google's vice president of search. The company has been addressing the challenges posed by India's search behavior by improving voice recognition for Hindi and other local languages. Google has also collaborated with the Indian Institute of Science on Project Vaani, which focuses on gathering and transcribing speech data from all districts in India. The future of search, according to the vice president, is multi-modal, with an emphasis on combining different content types like images and text.

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