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AOL launches Hindi and Tamil languageversions of its Internet portal in India today. It’s one step in theirexpansion strategy, in which they plan to conquer 30 regions by the endof next year. Video search will also be enabled in 8 regions: France,Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.Some might recall that this video search is (at least partly) based onthe remnants of SingingFish, a popular audio/video search web siteacquired by AOL but killed off earlier this year.
The launch of the local Indian sites coincides with Fortune Global Forum conferences in that region this week, hosted by Time Inc.
This expansion comes on the heels of AOL’s restructuring, which sawthem selling their internet service providing business outside of theStates and focusing on creating free Internet portals which mostly makerevenue from advertising. Recently, AOL launched localized versions ofits portal in Sweden, Spain and Italy. We’ll see how well will theyfare after the expansion, since their second quarter online advertisingrevenues rose only 16 percent, in contrast to 40 percent growth in theprevious four quarters.