Telugu content on the web is growing in many ways: blogs, micro blogs, webzines, forums, portals are popping up. With the growing content, there is also a growing (though at a lower rate) trend of searching in Telugu.

All most all search engines today can (and do) index content in Unicode. So, if one knows typing in Telugu, one can enter a keyword in any search engine and get results in Telugu. Here is a screen shot of Google search for Telugu keywords:

Here are some links to Telugu search results in some search engines:

• Google
• Yahoo!
• Live Search
• Ask
• Clusty

Google started receiving recognizable amount of searches in Telugu roughly from year 2008, as you can see in the below sample trend (the red line).

To make searching easy in local languages, Google went a step ahead and started providing search suggestions in local languages when one tries to search in their regional web site google.co.in. Here is a screen shot showing Telugu suggestions:

Guruji (an Indian search engine) provides a on-screen keyboard for typing in local languages:

There is nothing stopping us from searching the web in Telugu. I hope searching in Telugu would increase.

Happy searching!

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