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Google Shopping expands to India in English and Hindi

Google enters India's massive market where Flipkart and Amazon have been battling for e-commerce dominance.

Ginny Marvin on December 13, 2018 at 4:58 pm
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Google is bringing its successful Shopping product to India, where it will also support product searches in Hindi.

Why you should care

Google is bringing the Shopping tab to Google Search and launching a new separate Shopping home page in India as it sets its sites on bringing more merchants and hundreds of millions of Indian consumers into its ecosystem.

“We hope this enables all kinds of retailers, especially those who have never had an online presence, to reach millions of new consumers,” Google Shopping VP Surojit Chatterjee, said in a statement. There are some 20 million retail-oriented small businesses in India, according to census data. Of the 400 million Indian consumers online, fewer than a third currently make purchases online, according to Chatterjee.

With the launch, announced Thursday, Google is also expanding Merchant Center to support Hindi, in addition to English. Sellers will be able to upload their product feeds to Merchant Center in Hindi and promote their products on Google Shopping to users who search in that language. It’s estimated roughly 44 percent of the country speaks Hindi.

Google is not the only company competing for consumer and seller attention in India. Google Shopping comes to India in an e-commerce landscape dominated by two major players: Walmart subsidiary and India native Flipkart, where Chatterjee previously served as head of product, and Amazon, which launched a Hindi site in September. Flipkart has been taking e-commerce share from Amazon, which is estimated to have 44 percent of the e-commerce market in India versus Flipkart’s 40 percent.

More about Google Shopping India

  • India is the first to get the new Shopping homepage which will feature popular products and deals as well as employ machine learning to tailor the user experience by showing items users viewed recently and making product recommendations.
  • The service will also be available through Google Lens, which users can use to take pictures of products and automatically search for them on Google Shopping.
  • Google Shopping ads are now available in 43 countries.

Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here.



About The Author

Ginny Marvin
Ginny Marvin was Third Door Media’s former Editor-in-Chief (October 2018 to December 2020), running the day to day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin writes about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.

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