Google: Pick a language
2003-09-04 20:31
Llwellyn Prince
Cape Town - The services of the internet search engine Google are now available in 89 languages and dialects, representing 82 countries.
South Africans can now search in Afrikaans, Xhosa and Zulu apart from the original English. A Sotho version will soon be completed.
Users can visit www.google.com/preferences to change the language from English to any of the other languages or dialects.
Volunteers perform a large part of the translation from the English version to local languages or dialects.
The website translate.org.za, which will translate the Google website to South African languages, said the translation is part of a continuous process to translate internet content and software to all eleven official languages.
53% of the international internet community use Google.
- Die Burger