Adventures in web globalization, since 2002
John Yunker Web localization is all about managing expectations. Patrick Hall pointed out to me yesterday that although Google offers an Amharic (www.google.com/intl/am) interface it apparently hasn’t actually indexed any Amharic content. …
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) just published a survey of the Chinese search engine market. Baidu comes out on top in market share. But Google is more popular …
Google continues to go where no other multinational has gone before, adding the following lanugage interfaces: – Cambodian – Corsican – Kazakh – Lingala – Pashto – Quechua – Shona …
Earlier this month I wrote an article in Global By Design on Google’s ambitious machine translation (MT) plans. While Google is still very much in pre-beta stage with its home-brewed …
According to the Deloitte and NVCA 2005 Global Venture Capital Survey, VCs are increasingly looking outside their borders when making investments. What this non-intuitive exhibit shows is that US VCs …
The Canadian Web site for United Airlines (www.united.ca) is celebrating its 5-year anniversary with a special giveaway. As Web globalization goes, five years is a long time. I’m glad to …
The media fallout of the billion-dollar Yahoo! Alibaba deal is still rolling in. There’s a good piece in the WSJ about how eBay is trying to avoid a repeat of …
Business Week features an article about the “secret” brand that is Muji. According to the article, “Muji is short for mujirushi ryohin, which translates roughly to ‘no label, quality goods,’ …
Dell didn’t report the revenues that analysts were hoping for but it certainly posted solid non-US revenues. According to its earnings release today… Revenue from outside the United States accounted …
They’re young, they’re affluent, and they want American goods. Meet the Chuppiers: young, urban, Chinese consumers. UPR commissioned a survey of selected Chuppies (1,140 Chinese consumers between the ages of …
If Yahoo! acquires a stake in China’s B-B ecommerce portal Alibaba, the stage will be set for a very heated battle between Yahoo! and eBay for China in particular and …
As the stock offering for Chinese search engine Baidu quadrupled on its first day of trading on the NASDAQ, I couldn’t help but wonder what the folks at Google are …
The long-awaited iTunes Japan site is up and running.. Japan is the 20th country store now available. Plenty of room left to grow. The site offers 1 million songs which …
Here are notes from today’s Q2 earnings call… -> A strong quarter: $41.3 million. Margins are up. -> Even though their revenues from HP are down (due largely to HP’s …
Globalization services vendor Welocalize has publicly announced, for the first time, its revenues. For years the company has blasted out glowing press releases about record quarters of growth with little …
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