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Millions of people access the internet everyday, looking for several things online like answers to their homework, movie reviews, book plots, political news, celebrity gossips, travel suggestions. And when they enter their queries to the search engines, most of the web pages that are pulled up have contents written in English.

However, not all internet users are that well-versed in English despite the fact that it is the universal language. For example, users from China, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Germany; which are just some of the countries that are in the past were not influenced by the English-speaking population. Hence, a lot of resourceful websites become incomprehensible or become less valuable to users from these parts of the world.

One of the things I admire with Google is their effort to localize their websites. It dates back in 2001 when they started the “Google in Your Language” project. This project has encouraged thousands of volunteers from different countries to translate Google pages into their native languages. Because of their conscientious effort Google is now available in more than 100 languages. These languages can be checked in http://www.google.com/language_tools.