Google strikes emotional chord with new campaign 'Reunion'

A new campaign that showcases a whole range of Google's services is sure to touch an emotional chord. A 3:32 film - titled Reunion - that adds a human dimension to the otherwise mundane search - almost suggesting that there are emotions to "googled" and friends to be found.

The India-Pakistan partition in 1947 separated many friends and families overnight.

A granddaughter in India decides to surprise her grandfather on his birthday by reuniting him with his childhood friend (who is now in Pakistan) after over six decades of separation, with a little help from Google Search.

Baldev, a resident of Delhi, shares his childhood story of hanging out with his friend Yusuf in Lahore and eating sweets with his grand-daughter. The granddaughter looks it up on Google and invites Yusuf to Delhi to surprise her grandfather.