“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 [...]
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 [...]
In a move to compete with Salesforce.com, Amazon and Google, Intuit launched a cloud platform for 3rd party developers called Federated Applications. Applications do not have to conform to QuickBooks but will instead go through a minor configuration process to adapt. This is a major breakthrough for reaching an international audience. According to Leena Rao: Intuit’s [...]
CafePress and Spreadshirt competitor Zazzle, who specialize in mass customization, are going global and localizing their website for the Australia and Canadian market. Zazzle has also expanded its existing UK site, launched in late 2008, to the greater European market by accepting payments in Euros. Earlier this year, Zazzle underwent a reduction in force of 15% of their staff due to [...]