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Month: March 2003

Spanish Speakers and the Internet

March 31, 2003 by John Yunker

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 total online populations of many Spanish-speaking nations. According to the …

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Categories US Hispanic Market, Web Globalization

ICANN Goes Global — Gradually

March 30, 2003 by John Yunker

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 Twomey — the first non-U.S. citizen to be president — …

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Categories China, Domain names, Web Globalization

There is No Such Thing as “Rest of World”

March 24, 2003 by John Yunker

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 contributed: There is no such thing as “rest of world.” …

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Categories Brazil, Web Globalization

The Globalization of Google

March 19, 2003 by John Yunker

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 than 200 million queries a day from around the world. …

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Categories Arabic, China, Google, Web Globalization

The Galling Rise of English

March 5, 2003 by John Yunker

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 becoming the working language of the EU. According to the …

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Categories Culture, Web Globalization

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