Telugu content on the web grows

News Type: Opinion — Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:39 AM EDT

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Telugu content on the web has been steadily growing for the past few years. Evolution of Unicode Standard and availability of tools that enable creation of content in Telugu are the major catalysts for this growth.

Online News Sites & E-zines

Eenadu, a Telugu daily, is currently among top 2000 sites (world-wide visits) and among "top 50 sites that Indians visit" as per Alexa. A few other popular Telugu online news sites are among top 20,000 worldwide sites, too.

Blogs & Podcasts

There are about a thousand bloggers who regularly write in Telugu. There is even a Telugu podcasting site, Aasaagalam.

Wikipedia

Telugu Wikipedia now has more than 3,000 articles and is growing fast. In English Wiktionary, more than 1,000 words have their Telugu translations.

Big Boys

Google search has a Telugu interface. (As a side note, recently Microsoft released a Telugu Language Interface Pack (LIP) for Office 2003.)

Since all major search engines support unicode, we can search the web for Telugu content in Telugu:

Groups & Forums

There are many Telugu groups and web forums on the web for various topics:

Movie Related and Other Sites

Though the content is not always in Telugu, there are many movie related sites, Telugu music sites that cater mainly to the Telugu people living abroad.

There are also many websites that are for different different purposes.

All this boils down to this: More content, more people, more business opportunities!

Related links:

Telugu in Internet: a Silent Revolution, a Telugu post

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vrdarla

ఇంగ్లీషులో రాసినా చాలా విలువైన విషయాలను మీ వ్యాసంలో ఉంచారు.అభినందనలు. కానీ నేను రాయబోయేది సమీక్ష.కనుక, బ్లాగుల స్వభావంపై దృష్టి కేంద్రీకరించాలనుకుంటున్నాను.

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#1 - Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:53 AM EST

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vamsi-152079

I agree with u. Just recently I have seen a site It was amazing. U just have to type telugu in english script it coverts it into telugu in telugu script. If tools like this come up. I only see that the content is going to grow

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#2 - Tue Jun 5, 2007 5:22 AM EDT

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vamsi-152079

The site is quillpad.in

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#3 - Tue Jun 5, 2007 5:24 AM EDT

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Veeven

Vamsi, also see lekhini.org. There are Telugu blog aggregators too, example koodali.org.

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#4 - Thu Jun 7, 2007 10:07 AM EDT

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