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Users don’t change settings — so you better guess right

November 19, 2011 by John Yunker

There’s a good article on Brainsparks about how rarely users get around to changing their default computer settings. “Less than 5% of the users we surveyed had changed any settings at all.” This statistic has great relevance to web globalization. …

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Navigating the multilingual web: The Art of the Global Gateway

September 9, 2010 by John Yunker

In 1999, I first used the term “global gateway.” At the time, I was referring to a company’s “select language” pull-down menu. Needless to say, the term stuck. But it has also evolved. Today, a global gateway is so much more …

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