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From http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/technology/internet/31hindi.html

Writing the Web’s Future in Numerous Languages
By DANIEL SORID
December 30, 2008

The next chapter of the World Wide Web will not be written in English alone. Asia already has twice as many Internet users as North America, and by 2012 it will have three times as many. Already, more than half of the search queries on Google come from outside the United States.

Only there is a shortage of non-English content and applications. So, American technology giants are spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to build and develop foreign-language Web sites and services.

Nowhere are the obstacles, or the potential rewards, more apparent than in India, whose online population Jupiter says is poised to become the third-largest in the world after China and the United States by 2012.

Read the entire article at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/technology/internet/31hindi.html .

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