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Geolocation in the Wall Street Journal

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments

I was quoted briefly in an article in the Journal on the benefits of geolocation. Geolocation can be used to do many things, but I find it particularly useful in directing Web users to localized Web sites. You can read the article here.

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Tags: Web Globalization · ecommerce

Google perpetuates the American .com myth

July 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Google features a 4th of July logo at Google.com today.
This is not all that unusual; Google has been doing this for several years now. But there is an inherent flaw in hosting an American visual at Google.com: The .com address is not synonymous with USA.
I know, it’s a picky thing. And yet it’s not such [...]

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