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Five web globalization best practices that have stood the test of time

September 1, 2024 by John Yunker

NOTE: The following is the beginning of an article I published with Multilingual Magazine recently. You can read the full article at the link below (free registration required). Twenty years …

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Categories Companies, Google, Transcreation, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

The top 25 global websites from the 2013 Web Globalization Report Card

August 8, 2017February 21, 2013 by John Yunker

UPDATE: The 2017 Web Globalization Report Card is now available. I’m pleased to announce the top-scoring websites from the 2013 Web Globalization Report Card. This is the ninth annual edition …

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Categories Apple, Business globalization, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

(Insert company name here) stumbles in China

August 24, 2011 by John Yunker

From the article Groupon stumbles in China in The Wall Street Journal: Foreign Internet companies have long struggled in China, which has more Internet users than any other country. Yahoo Inc., one …

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Categories Business globalization, China, Google, Web Globalization

Google, Bing and Babelfish: What’s the best translation engine?

May 17, 2010 by John Yunker

Two months ago I wrote about an effort to evaluate the quality of the three major free machine translation (MT) engines: Google Translate Bing (Microsoft) Translator Yahoo! Babelfish Ethan Shen …

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Categories Google, Machine Translation, Microsoft

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