English – still the language of the Internet?

For many years, English has been considered by many to be the primary language of the World Wide Web.  In an

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Google Searches by Language

A futuristic looking search tool has been unveiled by online search engine Google. Google developers have designed the search tool to show how online searches are determined by the language that has been used by the user.
The results have been colour coded to show what is the most popular language used to search the internet […]

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Ebay in China

There is no doubt about the huge current business potential in China and up until recently Ebay have had to concede to the fact that they were just not getting their fair market share of the business that was out there is China.
Ebay have a bad history with business in China as back in 2003 […]

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A.I. Poetry from Google

The latest goal of researchers at Google is to create a computer that can translate poetry. This ‘Al Complete task’ is “as difficult as anything we can attempt in artificial intelligence”, states Dmitriy Genzel, a research scientist at Google. What particular difficulties are there in the translation of poetry?
Google is not alone in the development […]

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Revolution 2.0 and the Multilingual Web

The Egyptian Revolution has brought to the forefront the role of social media in the modern world. Debate continues over the role websites such as Facebook and Twitter played in the movement in Egypt; however to what extent these websites played a role in the revolution is not important. What is important is that they […]

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Changes to the language of the Internet

2010 saw the emergence of a new trend in Internet domains, the rise of the internationalized domain names (IDNs). As we move into 2011 we can anticipate a change that will mean that URLs are no longer confined fully to the English language or Latin script.
At the end of 2010 existing IDNs were heavily concentrated […]

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Wikipedia and the Multilingual Internet

Wikipedia has confirmed that its first office outside of the USA is to be opened in India. The exact location is yet to be announced but Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales reports that it will open in the next few months and will be a staffed by a small team initially of two to four people. […]

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