Friday, August 1, 2008

Google Homepage Breaks the One Hundred Language Mark

Google intends on making all the worlds knowledge searchable. Translation efforts are a natural extension of that. In their efforts, Google has one hundred languages available on their Google Homepage.


Google Blog
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/google-in-your-language.html

"You may have read a couple of weeks back about our 40-language initiative and our broader goal of making the world’s information accessible in as many languages as possible. For this reason we were extremely pleased last week to take part in an event in Rotorua, New Zealand for the launch of the Google homepage and search interface in the Maori language. I want to emphasize “take part in”, because much of the hard work that made this announcement possible came from a dedicated team of volunteer translators across New Zealand.

In conjunction with our active effort to make all of our products and services available in 40 languages, beginning in 2001 we began a program known as Google in Your Language, which is designed to give anyone the tools to translate Google services into languages in which they are fluent. Thanks to this program, as well as our other efforts to localize our products, the Google homepage itself now appears in more than 100 languages.
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