“Yandex” is an acronym for the phrase “Yet Another Indexer.” and is the leading search engine in Russia. Their search engine automatically searches all possible forms of a given word, takes into account the distance between the searched words within sentences and paragraphs, and searches documents in the major Cyrillic languages — Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian [...]
Twitter already stated earlier in the week that it was geting about 50 million tweets being sent out per day. New data released shows that approximately half of those tweets are in non-English language. Approximately 25 milion foreign languge tweets being sent out per day. A lot of people are using Twitter in languages other [...]
The folks at MyGengo, a foreign language translation services company recently published a report covering the market conditions for the language learning industry. Here some interesting facts revealed: Chinese, Spanish and English represent only 30% of the worlds spoken language by population. But these languages make up roughly 60% of the internet users. 52% of [...]
They’re coming! Perhaps around mid 2010, domain name URL’s written in non-English language will become available for the internet. So a new gold rush is set to begin. The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names — or [...]