Localization firm SDL recently announced that Best Western has signed up for SDL’s “Knowledge-based Translation System” to better manage its global Web sites. According to the press release, the “implementation will involve translation of more than four million words on four thousand web sites plus daily updates into four languages: French, Spanish, Italian and German.”

[...]

Here’s a short but useful piece in WebProNews on improving search engine results across foreign search portals. The most important tip is this: if you want to do well in other markets, you need to register your Web site in country-specific domains.

For the article, click here.

You can’t hide on the Internet, particularly when it comes to Web globalization. I was passing through the Alienware Web site the other day — because they have the coolest-looking desktops on the market — and I couldn’t help but notice this in the upper right-hand corner:

Ah yes, the beginnings of a [...]