AOL adds new language portals The Hindu
Anand Parthasarathy Indian edition of video search engine among eight introduced Bangalore: Six months after it launched an India-specific English language portal, global Web services giant, AOL (formerly America On Line) has added two new language portals in Hindi and Tamil. The www.aol.in/Hindi page offers four main sections: Samachar (news), Bollywood, Gossip and Kala-Sanskrithi (culture). It headlines the news that the Hindi remake of Sholay is soon to be followed with Gujarati and Sindhi versions. It even sneakily suggests the possible new dialogue: Ketla manas hatha?, Gujarati rendering of Gabbar Singhs menacing Kitne aadmi thhey?, How many men were there? With a canny eye for regional appeal, the Tamil portal www.aol.in/Tamil has localised the movie pages to Tamil cinema and added a section on astrology and religion. On Saturday, visitors learnt that the next vehicle of actress Tanya of Thirudi fame is a suspense thriller, Thatak, thatak while devotees are reminded that the Skanda Sashti festival begins at Palani on Sunday. Both the language portals are linked to AOLs main India site www.aol.in in English. Also launched last week were eight country-specific editions of AOLs new video search engine Truveo, for the U.S., France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Spain, Taiwan and India. The India site (http://in.truveo.com/) offers desi-interest video clips in categories such as news, sports, entertainment, music, movies and viewers choice. AOL seems to have wisely chosen not to compete with video hosting services such as Googles You Tube or Yahoo Video but instead aggregates and searches for videos based on the users request, trawling all such sites. This includes the just-launched Hulu video service from the U.S.-based NBC and NewsCorp. Top ranked at the Indian edition of Truveo are videos of the weekend premieres of the two big Diwali Hindi movie releases, Saawariya and Om Shanti Om; the successful surgery of the multi-limbed child in Bangalore and Yuvrajs always-in-demand six sixes. Save all your chat conversations. Find them online at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
