Google celebrates Web Heroes

Google India has launched a "The Web Is What You Make of It" campaign - Google's global online and offline campaign celebrating everyday people in India and around the world who are pairing their passion and creativity with the power of the web to do amazing things. Capturing the best moments in life, the campaign showcases the emotional and personal connection that people have with the web today. 

Through a series of short videos, Google wants to share how the web has affected the lives of millions of people and helped them achieve their dreams. It includes a variety of stories from celebrities to everyday consumers to small businessmen.

The first video, "Letters from Dad", debuted on June 19, 2011 across national TV channels, was inspired by a collection of true stories about parents taking advantage of technology and web services to capture and document the lives of their children.

The second video, "Archana's Kitchen", which aired last week, tells the story of Archana who grew up in a small town in Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore and took forward her childhood passion of cooking to the web through Blooking (Blog Cooking). She developed a faithful set of followers online, which culminated into a catering service along with a book deal.

"The campaign, at its core, is about people. It opens people's eyes to how they can connect, inspire and impact the world via the power of the web. It is also an open invitation to get people online and using the web to its full potential," he adds.