Google Maps has introduced a way in which the company can help non-English speakers in India to use the application with greater ease. Since names of most Indian places of interest (POIs) in Google Maps are not generally available in the native scripts of the languages of India. They issue the search query, કેડી હોસ્પિટલ, in the native script of Gujarati, the 6th most widely spoken language in India. In this search, Google Maps knows to look for hospitals, but it doesn't understand that કેડી is KD, hence it finds another hospital, CIMS. Using this ensemble, they have added names in these languages to millions of POIs in India, increasing the coverage nearly twenty-fold in some languages.

Source: Mint January 27, 2021 11:37 UTC