The Commission Election of India (CEI) has decided not to select Google as a partner to create an online voter registration tool that would also provide information about voting locations and card numbers.

“Google made a presentation to the Commission for electoral look up services for citizens... However, after due consideration, the Commission has decided not to pursue the proposal any further,” wrote Dhirendra Ojha, the director of the commission, in a statement on Thursday.

Citing unnamed CEI officials, Reuters reported that Google was dropped because the company had not offered any major improvements. Also, the company's services were declined given strained relations between India and the US over a new diplomatic spat and previous concerns of surveillance and spying in the wake of the Snowden disclosures.

"Google is committed to help make public information on the Web easily accessible to Internet users across the country," Google said in a statement provided to the news agency.

"It is unfortunate that our discussion with the Election Commission of India to change the way users access their electoral information, that is publicly available, through an online voter look up tool, were not fruitful," it added.

Some American tech firms have seen lost business as a result of the post-Snowden fallout, including Cisco and other companies that provide cloud-based services. Foreign companies, by contrast, have used the opportunity to market themselves as resistant to NSA pressure due to their presence overseas.