In 2008, Google launched a project called Knol. Remember it? It was designed to replace Wikipedia. Google apparently wasn’t happy …
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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 …
Google Translate is the world’s most popular translation tool. The company says it now translates 30 trillion sentences a year …
I’m pleased to say that, based on the websites I study regularly, we’ve reached “peak flag.” In other words, at …
Read morePeak flag: The decline of flags on websites has begun
Verisign has owned rights to the .com domain for many years, and profited enormously. So it’s no surprise that the …
If you are flying the Taiwan flag on your website, consider yourself warned. By China. As I’ve written many times …
A few months ago, I wrote an essay for Multilingual in which I noted that the world’s most multilingual website …
Read moreWhat’s the world’s most multilingual website? (2018 update)
It’s been a month since women have been legally allowed to drive in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and I …