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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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November 18, 2005

Google News Adds Brazil and Portugal

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Google has added Google News Web sites for Brazil and Portugal. This brings the total of language and country specific News sites to 23, assuming I counted correctly...

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Today Google also announced the opening of offices in Mexico and Brazil, part of its ongoing effort to expand its presence in Latin America.


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