PC World writes that Google is testing new home page designs for Taiwan and Hong. This comes on the heals of Google’s new Korean home page.
The company is focusing on those markets where it currently does not lead. It looks like the new Web designs for Taiwan and Hong Kong will follow [...]
What separates good global Web sites from great global Web sites? Is it just the number of languages a Web site supports? Certainly languages are essential.
Although every Web site is global by nature, few Web sites support enough languages to be understood by the majority of the world’s Internet users.
But translation is just [...]
Here are some thoughts from the past two days of the Idiom User Summit, in no particular order:
- There was a lot of buzz around machine translation (MT). Both Systran and Language Weaver are here and there were (at least) four sessions devoted to integrating Idiom WorldServer with MT. More important, the translation agencies [...]
2006 is a few days away and I can’t resist looking into my crystal ball to see what the year holds for all of us in the Web globalization industry.
But before reading my take on the year ahead, let’s see how I did on my 2005 predictions:
2005 Predictions Scorecard
Web Globalization Goes [...]
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