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Orkut In Indian Languages Doesn’t Impress

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Google owned Orkut has introduced an interface which allows users access the site in multiple languages: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. I tried the Hindi interface, and found that not all the content on a page is in Hindi (screencap). It doesn’t impress, because it caters only to the multilingual user…but it’s a start. Google doesn’t seem to have added its transliteration feature for Indic languages yet to Orkut, which means I couldn’t post a scrap in Hindi. They do mention the transliteration feature in the post announcing the introduction of multiple languages, here. Recently, the site has undergone a design overhaul, and the Orkut blog has related posts here, here and here,  though there’s apparently much more to be done.

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Sep 2, 2007 11:49 PM ET

Posted In: Companies, Google, Orkut

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