Amazon’s Global Growth Spurt
Amazon recently released Q2 numbers, and, as we predicted, international sales are now solidly driving Amazon’s growth. Take a look at the sales breakdown between North America and International: If …
Month: July 2004
Web Globalization Back on the “Front Burner”
Two months ago I began interviewing executives at a number of large multinationals about their global Web sites. As you know, I’ve been following this industry for many years now, …
China: 80 Million Internet Users And Just Getting Started
According to a new report from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) — the country’s Internet regulatory body — China now has 31 million broadband Internet subscribers, an increase …
Language Map of the USA
Amy Campbell alerted us to The Modern Language Association Language Map. It’s an interactive tool for analyzing language speakers in the US by county and ZIP code, based on the …
New Microsoft Globalization Resources
Microsoft has greatly expanded its globalization resources Web site over the past few years. Although much of it is geared toward software developers, Web developers will also find useful nuggets …
eBay: Think Globally; Test Locally
ZDNet News UK reports that eBay Australia will no longer allow sellers to set a reserve price. According to the article, “eBay maintains that reserves actually put off buyers, citing …
World’s Largest Hotel Chain Expanding Global Web Sites
Localization firm SDL recently announced that Best Western has signed up for SDL’s “Knowledge-based Translation System” to better manage its global Web sites. According to the press release, the “implementation …
Global Search Engine Tips
Here’s a short but useful piece in WebProNews on improving search engine results across foreign search portals. The most important tip is this: if you want to do well in …
Googling China
The search engine war in China has long been heated, but Yahoo! recently upped the stakes with the launch of a new search portal: www.yisou.com. It sure looks a lot …