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Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, is teaming up with the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF) and the Omidyar Network to help boost small- and medium-sized businesses in India secure funding.

Aside from the U.S., I’d say that India is probably Google’s favorite country.  Now Google’s showing it an extra bit of love by investing in two venture capital funds.

The recommendation of an Indian parliamentary committee threatens to change the wording in proposed legislation that would hold Google and other service providers accountable for content traversing their system.

The term “Google killer” is bandied about every so often, but let’s face it: no one company is going to kill Google anytime soon.  But a company could “stump” the search engine giant - particularly in a foreign market - and Guruji intends to do exactly that.

Google digitizes books on a fairly regular basis, but it’s not every day that manuscripts made of palm leaves join the “to-do” pile.  That’s the case, however, at the University of Mysore in India, where over 800,000 documents are set to be brought into the twenty-first century.

Never mind another research facility, and a call center is so comparatively small as to be out of the question; Google intends to build a new “state-of-the-art techno complex” near Hyderabad, India.

The citizens of Mumbai, India may soon be blessed with a wireless mesh network that should blanket the city.  And although Lifestyle Networks and its managing director, Abhishek Javeri, are behind this development, Mumbai’s citizens will also owe a thank-you to Google.

The recent abuse of the social networking site, Orkut, of Google created lot of uproar in the country.