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Just how global is your browser?

By On July 14, 2009 · 3 Comments

Firefox 3.5 is now out and available in more than 70 languages.

Yes, 70 languages.

Naturally, I was curious to learn how many languages the other browsers currently support. Here is a rough list:

Internet Explorer 8: 63 languages Chrome: 63 languages Opera 9.6: 36 languages [...]

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Bing cuts the clicks

By On July 12, 2009 · 1 Comment

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft, so take this with a grain of salt.

Since Bing launched I’ve been thinking a lot about search engines and how I use them.

I’ve got two recent examples that illustrate why I think Bing might be onto something. Bing, for certain scenarios, cuts the clicks you must make to [...]

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Bing Beats Google in Insta-translation

By On June 15, 2009 · 5 Comments

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 [...]

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The Twitter Domain Rush: Don’t Get “Twit-jacked”

By On May 27, 2009 · 3 Comments

My previous post on Twitter got me thinking about what other companies had registered language-specific domains for their Twitter accounts.

Turns out, most companies haven’t even registered Twitter accounts for their primary brands.

Like who?

Apple, for one.

Here we have someone who apparently likes apples but isn’t Apple:

It appear [...]

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