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Thursday, 21 August 2008

New Google homepage for Tanzania in Swahili

Posted on 13:16 by Unknown
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Today we launched our search engine for Tanzania at www.google.co.tz/, marking our 25th localized home page in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is the first time we've launched a country home page with an African language - Swahili in this case - as the default language.

The experience behind the Swahili translation has been quite an interesting one. We are committed to delivering our products to all of the world's internet users in their local language. However, getting to that grand objective will take time. We have a fairly substantial operation for translating our products into many languages, the number of which is growing rapidly. As we continue to support more languages, we also recognize the desire of people to search in their native tongue, even if it is one for which we have not yet begun an official translation. For just this purpose, we have been offering the "Google in your language" program for quite a while.

Many African languages have already been translated using this program, and you may choose to set your Google home page to any of these languages. The process of having a volunteer translate a homepage that will serve an entire country into the default language requires a high level of confidence in the quality and completeness of the translation. With Swahili, we believe our volunteers have achieved that.

If you are interested in seeing Google launch in your own language, we encourage you to consider contributing to this effort.

Posted by Divon Lan, Product Manager, Sub Saharan Africa


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Nouvelle page d'accueil Google pour la Tanzanie en swahili

Nous avons lancé aujourd'hui notre moteur de recherche pour la Tanzanie à l'adresse www.google.co.tz, ce qui marque ainsi notre 25ème page d'accueil localisée en Afrique sub-saharienne. C'est la première fois que nous lançons une page d'accueil pour un pays dans une langue africaine - le swahili en l'occurence - en tant que langue par défaut.

L'expérience acquise lors de la traduction en swahili fut particulièrement intéressante. Nous sommes engagés dans la création de produits adaptés dans les langues locales de tous les utilisateurs d'Internet de la planète. Cependant, atteindre cet objectif ambitieux prendra du temps. Nous mettons des moyens assez importants pour traduire nos produits dans de nombreuses langues, dont le nombre grandit rapidement. Tandis que nous continuons à ajouter de nouvelles langues, nous comprenons le souhait des utilisateurs d'effectuer des recherches dans leur langue maternelle, même si nous n'avons pas encore commencé une traduction officielle dans cette langue. A cet effet, nous avons proposé le programme "Google dans votre langue" depuis un certain temps.

De nombreuses langues africaines ont déjà été traduites grâce à ce programme, et vous pouvez choisir de paramétrer votre page d'accueil Google dans une de ces langues. Le processus, qui consiste à ce qu'un bénévole traduise une page d'accueil dans une langue locale utile à tout un pays, exige un niveau élevé de confiance dans la qualité et la totalité de la traduction. Avec la traduction en swahili, nous pensons que nos bénévoles ont atteint ce niveau.

Si vous êtes intéressé par le lancement de Google dans votre langue, nous vous encourageons à participer à cet effort.

Posté par Divon Lan, Product Manager, Afrique sub-saharienne
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