Google will provide ‘Live’ updates of the election results scheduled to be announced on Friday.
It is also introducing new features to keep everyone updated on the latest news and poll results, including a live results map, and live counting day YouTube newscasts.
People will be able to access ‘live results’ at its website through a nation-wide view of the live counts, allowing everyone to see how many votes each party and candidate has secured, the company said.
“This election the Internet has been a catalyst and provided a great platform for political parties to leverage the power of social media to interact and mobilise young India to go out and vote,” Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Google India, said.
“As India nears the counting day, Google will continue to provide essential news and information to the voters, ensuring that they have all the relevant information at a single destination,” he said.
Role of internet With over 200 million Internet users in the country, the Internet audience in India has reached a critical scale and will play an important role in influencing the decisions of a large proportion of the urban Indian population in future elections.
Election related search queries on Google have shown a considerable increase and the interest in news information related to elections and politics have started to peak, Anandan added.