Last year, I wrote an essay for Multilingual in which I noted that the world’s most multilingual website isn’t Google or Facebook or even Wikipedia. It …
Read moreWhat’s the world’s most multilingual website? (2019 update)
I had an OpEd published this week in the Los Angeles Times about the importance of languages — and the …
Read moreThe internet may connect devices, but language connects people.
According to the 2019 Web Globalization Report Card, 32 languages is the “average” number of languages supported by the leading global brands.
A little more than 15 years ago, I began benchmarking websites for a new report I had in mind, tentatively …
Read moreThe best global websites from the 2019 Web Globalization Report Card
Lunar New Year has arrived and, with it, the Chinese New Year (and related Asian New Year celebrations). As I’ve …
Read moreThe Year of the Pig (one localized website at a time)
In 2008, Google launched a project called Knol. Remember it? It was designed to replace Wikipedia. Google apparently wasn’t happy …
Read moreGoogle and Wikipedia: Partners in (multilingual) content
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