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When it comes to internet users, China is all now, but India is going to be bigger in the long run, said Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman.

India is becoming a critical testing ground for Facebook as it strives to capitalize on growth in emerging markets and better target mobile-phone users—two increasingly pressing goals for the social-networking firm.

Ignighter.com, a site for organizing group dates, wasn’t bringing in much traffic in the U.S. But the founders noticed that it was adding thousands of users a day in India.