Is time to come India to own search engine like china own Baidu and russia own VK ?

Question

At a time when India internet data user are large enough and just after china.Can we say its time for India own its search own search engine?

Answer 1

First is country does not own the search engine its Business House which own it.

Now lets see what was the advantage with China and Russia, both were non english speaking country and so the behavior of their internet users. In short their users were not comfortable to use Google and hence a space for a local language based was there and business houses filled that gap over a period of time.
Though India is a non english speaking but medium of business is english and non english business part is not substantial. And all non english speaking is not on same language, i.e. multiple language as hindi, marathi, kannada, tamil...

So in short customer size is not very attractive, thats why in the past all the startup which provided search capability could not survive.

Comments

But in india google and other  search engine provide local language service so think time to lunch to india own search engine

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Good point
May be some Indian business will start on this line soon.