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Month: September 2008

Geolocation in the Wall Street Journal

September 30, 2008 by John Yunker

I was quoted briefly in an article in the Journal on the benefits of geolocation. Geolocation can be used to do many things, but I find it particularly useful in directing Web users to localized Web sites. You can read …

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Categories Web Globalization

Google Translate adds languages; Microsoft adds translation widget

September 29, 2008 by John Yunker

Google Translate recently added 11 languages to its impressive portfolio of supported languages. To give you an idea of just how aggressive Google has been in this area, here is a screen grab of Google Translate from 2006: And here …

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Categories Google, Machine Translation, Web Globalization

The world according to Google

September 19, 2008 by John Yunker

Inspired by our Country Codes of the World map, I developed a smaller version that includes the ccTLDs currently in use by Google for its local search engines. As you can see here, Google has quite a few ccTLDs in …

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Categories Country Codes, Domain names, Google, Web Globalization

The TAUS take on Google Translation Center

September 15, 2008 by John Yunker

The post I wrote on the Google Translation Center has been the most-visited page on this blog over the past month. Clearly, Google has struck a nerve in the translation industry — and its service is not even live yet. …

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Categories Google, Languages, Machine Translation, Translation, Vendors

The “age gateway” comes of age

September 7, 2008 by John Yunker

For years I’ve been preaching the importance of the “global gateway” — the elements that Web sites use to seamlessly direct Web users to their localized Web sites and content, such as this splash global gateway: But there is a …

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Categories China, Global navigation, Web Globalization

Google Chrome and Simon: Separated at birth?

September 3, 2008 by John Yunker

Is it just me or does the new Google Chrome icon remind you of the old Simon game of the 1980s. Yes, I know I’m dating myself here, but I do see a resemblance…

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