Google has added Google News Web sites for Brazil and Portugal. This brings the total of language and country specific News sites to 23, assuming I counted correctly… Today Google also announced the opening of offices in Mexico and Brazil,…
Whenever I travel outside the US I get a kick out of entering “google.com” and seeing what happens. That’s because Google makes use of two behind-the-scenes technologies known as “geolocation” and “content negotiation.” Here is the Web page Google took…
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 among high-end users. And Baidu relies heavily on MP3 search…
Last week I received a “Factory Tour” invite from Google but didn’t give it much thought. I wish I had because I missed a preview of the company’s ambitious machine translation (MT) efforts. Thankfully, Philipp Lenssen includes a great recap…
Suw Charman says “I still think there’s a fundamental mental block regarding the rest of the world from a lot of American companies and developers.” She points out the new Google Maps application and its glaring lack of any country…
All Web sites are, by default, global. But which Web sites do the best job of truly speaking to the world? That is, which Web sites support the most languages, make navigation effortless for non-English speakers, and provide Web users…
Google says that half of its Internet traffic emanates from outside the US. While this is significant, what really matters to Google is where the revenues emanate from. Now that Google is on the verge of going public, it has…
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 like Google’s search portal, underscoring the dramatic success Google has…
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.…