New Delhi: The scheduled meeting of Internet search engine Google's founders and promoters with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was called off on Oct 11.

A Government spokesperson said that the two officials -- Serjey Brin and Larry Page -- were to meet PM on Oct 11, 2004, but the meeting has been called off.

He did not say why the meeting was called off.

When contacted D Frost, spokesperson Google, told reporters from the US, "They are in India. The founders visit their offices worldwide".

When contacted, Google's head of Bangalore R&D centre Krishna Bharat refused to take any query and answer as to why the two officials were meeting the PM and whether their visit to India has been called off.

In 1995, Brin and Serjey developed the Internet application that has become an important tool for searching information on the World Wide Web.

Both of them were named as 2004 Fellows of Marconi Foundation at Columbia University, New York.