Global by Design

A commenter on my post on the stunning lack of languages on the Olympics Web site (particularly when compared with Euro 2008) notes that two more languages were added recently: Spanish and Arabic.

Here are before and after shots of the language gateway.

August 6th:

August 14th:

What I find interesting is that these two languages were either added right when the Olympics began or possibly even a few days later.

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• World Bank Adds Arabic Web Site (Finally)
• AT&T: Going Global Awkwardly
• Google Translate is growing up