Google has introduced Google Sites in Hebrew and Arabic. This makes 40 languages that Google Sites now supports.
To change the language in Google Sites, simply go to More Actions > Manage Site > General. Site Collaborators can change the language of the interface by going to the user settings page from the My Sites list. If no language is set, Google uses the browser language setting.
Google launched four new Arabic versions of Google News for Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. According to Google, there are over 40 million Arabic-speaking Internet users, so you might say these versions of Google News are long overdue.
Yahoo has announced its intent to acquire Maktoob.com, an Arab portal that reaches one in every three people online in its region. That accounts for about 16.5 million people. Yahoo says this is its largest geographic expansion in years.
It doesn't look like Facebook's international growth rate is going to taper off anytime soon. Huge numbers of people will find the social network easier to access as of today, since Arabic and Hebrew versions of the site have been introduced.
Yesterday afternoon, Patrick Pichette, Google's chief financial officer, said something elegant about investing in the company's core business both in and out of the U.S. It seems the man's far from a liar, as a manager has now followed up with a call for Arabic-speaking engineers.
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