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Month: January 2019

Google and Wikipedia: Partners in (multilingual) content

January 28, 2019 by John Yunker

In 2008, Google launched a project called Knol. Remember it? It was designed to replace Wikipedia. Google apparently wasn’t happy that so many of its visitors were quickly abandoning it for this nonprofit wealth of information. But Knol died a …

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Categories Google, India, Languages, Machine Translation, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Global gateway fail: Slack

January 14, 2019 by John Yunker

Although Slack is not (yet) included in the Web Globalization Report Card, I wanted to point out something that I hope Slack fixes before it gets too far along on its global journey. Shown below, Slack locates its global gateway …

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Categories Global gateway fail, Global navigation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Forget it, Jake. It’s China.

January 9, 2019 by John Yunker

A timely article in The Wall Street Journal (that I only recently got around to reading): “The future’s not here.” American business people once saw China as dynamic, exciting and wide open. Not anymore. To which I ask: When was China ever “wide open?” An excerpt: …

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Categories Amazon, Apple, China, Cisco Systems, Google, Microsoft, Software Localization, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

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