Google Targets Southeast Asia: Malaysia Stands Out

Google is setting its sights on the increasingly lucrative Southeast Asia market, where Internet traffic is rising and the use of technology and social-networking platforms is gaining speed.

As part of its push to expand in Southeast Asia, Google said Wednesday it is opening a new office in Kuala Lumpur, its first new Asia office in four years. The Mountain View, Calif., Internet giant set up offices in Singapore and South Korea in 2007.

Google SEA managing director Julian Persaud, Dato Mukhriz and Sajith (from left-right) at the opening of the new Google Malaysia office.

Riding on the back of Malaysia's 55.6% internet penetration and the fact that Malaysia also has one of the highest usage percentage for Google's Chrome web browser in Asia Pacific, Google Inc. have announced their deepening investment into Southeast Asia by opening a brand new office in Kuala Lumpur.

Headed by Sajith Sivanandan - Google's previous head of online advertising business for the travel sector in South East Asia - the new office is a big step for Google to more efficiently bring its leading advertising platform, web services and search experience to users, advertisers and partners in Malaysia.

“We are delighted that Google has decided to set up an office in Kuala Lumpur. Their presence is a testament to their commitment to Malaysia as well as Malaysia's suitability as a regional multimedia hub. We hope that Google's entry will encourage more local businesses to go online and tap into international markets. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry looks forward to collaborating with Google more in the future,” says YB Dato' Mukhriz Mahathir, Deputy Minister of International Trade & Industry.

“Malaysia is a very significant country in Southeast Asia in terms of its digital economy and tech-savvy population. We are excited to be investing in Malaysia and, through our search and display solutions, helping small and large businesses grow, reach new markets and contribute to the growth of the economy. We also have a very engaged set of local users with whom we look forward to interacting much more closely,” said Sajith Sivanandan.

Google Malaysia is also currently hiring for its KL office and job openings can be viewed on their website, www.google.com.my/jobs. Welcome To Malaysia Google!

Source: Wall Street Journal/Lowyat.net

Google New Launched Program for Students: Code-In

Are you a computer geek? Are you in between 13-18 year old? Are you eager to have a real and hands-on experience on IT-related tasks? If you nodded your head right after those questions, Google Code-in is wholly suitable for you to stuff up your tedious and agonizing school holiday.

Google Code-in is an open source development and outreach contest targeted at 13-18 year old students around the world. Of course, it's not the first time that Google embark on this kind of program. Google had run a pilot program called the Google Highly Open Participation Contest during 2007 to 2008, which gave 400 students around the world an opportunity to help out open source projects on the following kinds of tasks:

1. Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
2. Documentation: Tasks related to creating/editing documents
3. Outreach: Tasks related to community management and outreach/marketing
4. Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality
5. Research: Tasks related to studying a problem and recommending solutions
6. Training: Tasks related to helping others learn more
7: Translation: Tasks related to localization
8: User Interface: Tasks related to user experiencec research or user interface design and interaction.

Since it was a huge success for Google at that episode, it's no doubt that Google fervently sets out to move its big stride to another milestone again with the contest with its new name, Google Code-In.

So, what are you waiting for? Check out its official website for more information.

P/S: Darned, I just slightly older than the age range of being the participant :(

Google reformed its picture searching system

As the chief of the internet search engine - Google, Google Picture Search is one of my favorite and recent site to go with, especially when I am preparing kind of presenations or assignments. Those stunning pictures just quickly and accurately revealed after the relevent key words is addressed. But things just come better and better, if you are the guys who same with me, I can sure you already found out that Google had reformed its picture searching system to the another higher realm which provides the more convenient, more accurate system to deal with.


The first sight showed to me about the new Google picture searching system its just quite alike with Mac iPhoto's style. XD Alright, make a try for it better than just know the theory, Check it out now!

A surprise from Google?

Nothing but somehow interesting~ I just got a real Google "Mail" from the Google! In accordance with the stamp, it directly came from the California, US where the Google Head Office hold and underwent a long period of voyage accross the Pacific Ocean reached to my house. Wow~finally I realized that why the Google could become the most successful company in the world nowadays! Their spirit in customer service is marvelous!



What's inside? Haha~This is the only secret between Google and me^^

Google Chrome for Mac?

Google Chrome had already announced sometime ago,but it is still just windows-only edition is available.Google giving us a surprise now,Google will getting reveal a Mac Edition or ever a Linux edition Google Chrome too,the company claim that.

According to Google,they claim that Google Chrome for Mac is in development and a team of engineers is working hard to bring it to us as soon as possible.Just on the early saturday,one of the Google Chrome engineer had revealed a screenshot which showing the Google Chrome running at the MacOS.Apparently,it seem like still can't accurately display the website when using it.However,Google's engineers will continually take a hard work on it until a prefect edition had been finally revealed in front of our sight and they also point out it will been announced not later than July 2009.

Otherwise,if anyone just vexedly want to try the Google Chrome for Mac or Linux,Crossover Chromim will giving a answer to you.