Google aims to have one billion net users in India

Tech giant Google today said it has set a target of taking the number of Indians using Internet to a whopping one billion-mark.

"We have a very simple mission in India. We want to get a billion Indians online," its Vice President for South East Asia and India, Rajan Anandan said at an event here.

However he did not give any timeline for the target, but said India has 350 million Internet users now and the number is expected to reach 600 million by 2020.

For a faster pick-up, Google is ensuring that its products are available in multiple languages beyond Hindi and English, he said adding that the given the data usage sensitivities of Indians, it is also necessary to build lighter products which the company is doing.

The company is trying to increase the number of trained and certified Android developers in the country to two million from the 50,000 at present, he said.

To grow the entrepreneurial ecosystem around the tech offerings, it has also launched 'Google Capital' in the country, he added.