AOL Launches Hindi, Tamil Portals

AOL is launching Hindi and Tamil language versions of its Internet portal in India as part of an aggressive global expansion that will see it in 30 regions by the end of 2008.

The online unit of Time Warner Inc., one of the world's biggest media companies, will also enable video searching in eight regions outside the United States: France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.

The local India language sites launch as the company hosts Time Inc.'s Fortune Global Forum conferences in the region this week.

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