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CORANTE John Yunker is founder of Byte Level Research and author of the widely acclaimed book, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies and editor of Global By Design.

He has covered the emerging field of Web globalization for half a decade and has published a wide range of reports dedicated to best practices in Web localization and internationalization.
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March 1, 2004

Google Watch: More Tools; More Languages

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Posted by John Yunker

Google continues its global growth campaign by launching News Alerts in four additional languages:

Google also has localized its popular search toolbar into 35 languages -- from Arabic to Welsh. You can download your toolbar by clicking below:

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And for those in desperate need of a change, Google offers toolbar versions in Pig Latin, Elmer Fudd and Hacker.

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