Tag Archives: language

Google in te reo Māori

Well almost, it would be great if google translate had te reo Māori options. Despite all the news about how great this is for te reo maori, I can’t actually find any Google application that will do anything in te reo Māori.
Unbelievably, I could find Klingon, Elmer Fudd, Hacker and something called “Bork bork bork“; […]

Word of the day: House

Wood, it is either boring, or a little naughty… and you are unlikely to ever need to know it, unless you are a builder. And if you were, you might use it to build a house; today’s word is “House”. The first word was “Sun“, a basic word and many languages less than 4 characters. […]

Word of the day: Water

You might wonder why the word of the day is so simple, it is an attempt to build an understanding of other languages. I figure that with a word a day, I might understand a dozen different words in written form… The first word was “Sun“, a basic word and many languages less than 4 […]

Reading from another perspective

Something I quite like to do is read wikipedia articles from alternate points of view. This is something that has been remarkably lacking throughout history and should help develop a better understanding of our place in the international community. Now we can finally read about the holoclaust from German, English (largely US), Hebrew and Arabic […]

Opportunities to provide a more useful browsing experience

Google is the major propreitor of this browsing information; a position they are sensibly securing through finding more information to record including:

Web stats
Rss Feeds
Lanuange tools
Web browsing habits
Search data
Web site layout

Google provides the internet at your fingertips… so you’d better make sure your site is complient