Global by Design

Bing recently added a nifty new translation feature — one that is so simple and in many ways so obvious that I can’t help wondering why Google never got around to doing it. But that’s a topic for a later post.
For now, I’d like you to try entering the following text strings into both Bing [...]

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According to my search on “web globalization” in Google Timeline:

I’m not sure I agree with this graph, but those were some heady days back in 2000.
From my humble perch, I’d say web globalization is alive and well. Perhaps searches are going down because more and more people already know what it is — at least [...]

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Only a few days after Microsoft announces a widget to bring machine translation into your Web site’s home page, Google takes a step towards integrating machine translation into its home page.
According to the unofficial Google blog, Google has inserted its “translate” link into a number of localized Google sites — such as France and Spain. [...]

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It was just over a year ago that Facebook started localizing itself for the world.
As I noted then, the company utilized crowdsourcing to spur its translation efforts. And though volunteers aren’t the only people translating content, a year later, Facebook has done an impressive job of going global.
Om Malik recently reported some key stats from [...]

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Google Translate now handles PDF files — says the unofficial Google blog.
I haven’t tried it yet. It looks like you have to post PDF files and then link to them to trigger the translation engine — not exactly what I’d call user friendly. But it’s a start..
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