Spanish Speakers and the Internet
The research firm comScore Networks just released the results of a survey of more than 50,000 U.S. Hispanic Web surfers. This study found that U.S. Hispanic Internet users outnumber the …
Month: March 2003
ICANN Goes Global — Gradually
Since its inception, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has been criticized for favoring the U.S. over other countries. But with a new president in office, Australian Paul …
There is No Such Thing as “Rest of World”
Multilingual Computing has published a very useful supplement on best practices in Web globalization. You can download a copy here. The following is an excerpt from an article that I …
The Globalization of Google
Amy Campbell alerted me to a very interesting graphic on the Google Zeitgeist page. It tracks the languages used to access Google over the past two years: Google handles more …
The Galling Rise of English
The Economist featured a very good article on the growing popularity of English in the European Union. Although English is not the official language of the EU, it is fast …