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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 2:24 PM
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Subject: [MELANET-L] Google launches regional domains for Tunisia and
Iraq
Google continues its quest to cover 99 of the world's Internet users
with the
launch of google,iq and google,tn, covering the countries of Iraq and
Tunisia
respectively.
Google on Thursday launched
<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/two-new-google-domains-iraq-and-
tunis
ia.html> the domains google.iq and google.tn provide regional,
pertinent
search results for the countries of Iraq and Tunisia respectively.
Google had previously routed searches from Iraq and Tunisia through
other countries. Now, an Iraqi searching for, say, a shoe store is more
likely to find one that's closer to his or her location. The two new
additions mean that Google now has 184 local domains worldwide, with 15
of those in Arab countries.
"The new domains will help people in Iraq and Tunisia find locally
relevant
information, faster," AbdelKarim Mardini, Google's product manager for
the
Middle East & North Africa, said in a blog post. "For example, a search
for
[central bank] on the Iraq domain yields results relevant to someone in
Iraq, such as the Central Bank of Iraq. On the other hand, the same
search on the Tunisia domain returns slightly different results."
With the new domains comes better support for each country's languages.
In
Iraq, Google users can now search in Arabic and Kurdish. In Tunisia,
Arabic
and French are now supported.
Google.iq and google.tn bring Google closer to its stated goal
<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/hitting-40-languages.html> of
covering the world's top 40 spoken languages and 99 percent of all
Internet
users. The company says it plans to launch more domains in "the coming
months," but didn't hint at what countries it was focusing on for those
launches.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-launches-regional-domains-
for-t
unisia-and-iraq/
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