Yahoo! India will expand its website to other six regional languages by 2011 and its looking for local partners to generate content, Reuters reported yesterday.
Besides English, the site also provides information in Hindi as part of a partnership with daily newspaper Dainik Jagran. "We see huge opportunity in regional language content. Our Hindi news traffic had taken over the traffic we see for news in English," said Yahoo! India Managing Director Arun Tadank, the Hindustan Times quoted.
Last week, Yahoo! CEO and President Carol Bartz announced the company's plan to increase local content in India by expanding the website to at least 18 regional languages, CIOL News Report pointed out.
"We aim to become the world's largest digital media company," she said adding that it could only be done through partnerships. "You need to understand that you cannot build everything," Bartz said, The Financial Express reported.
According to the Hindustan Times, India has 50 million Internet users, which are expected to increase up to 240 million in the next five years. Currently, 73 percent of the users has access to Yahoo!.

