Google to lean heavier on R038;D centre in B146;lore

Sergey Brin, co-founder and president Technology Google, who was in Bangalore, said search engines are evolving. 8216;8216;New search dimensions like new way to search and new ways to present the results are being worked out,8221; he said.

8216;8216;Traffic on Google comes globally, not only from the US. We are looking at fine-tuning the search for local use and working on expanding image search,8217;8217; said Brin.

The company is also looking at Indian language-specific products. 8216;8216;Accessability of language on Internet is important. India is rich in language and this will help us develop a better product for east Asian scripts,8217;8217; he said.

Brin said Google is working on translation of its search results. 8216;8216;It is a high-risk and high-reward area. We do provide translations in some languages, we are looking at extending this,8217;8217; he said.

In 1998, Google had 30 million web pages, today it has crossed 4.2 billion web pages, said Larry Page co-founder and president Products, at Google.

8216;8216;Text is a huge area for search, it is easy and efficient. Along with this, we are working on speech, image and multimedia content search,8217;8217; he stressed.

Apart from Bangalore, Google has engineering facilities in Mountain View, Santa Monica, Zurich, New York, Tokyo and a centre in Northern China in being planned.