Google has announced that Blogger will now be officially available in Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew, bringing the number of languages supported by Blogger to 40.
More significantly, Blogger now supports right to left writing as well for Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew.
Blogs in Arabic and Persian have been hosted by Blogger from its pre-Google days, so it’s surprising that the service is only now officially supporting the languages.
The Middle East presents strong growth opportunities for Google and other companies as younger generations embrace the internet. Even in more closed countries such as Iran, blogging has long been popular and Blogger has often been the platform of choice. Bloggers in many Middle Eastern countries blog at their own risk, with sites regularly becoming blocked or as is the case in countries such as Saudi Arabia, bloggers are arrested and jailed.
It’s be very interesting if there could be some type of program that could translate those blogs. I’d love to read view points from people in those parts of the world!
Already exists: http://www.hoto...notdesigns.com/
By Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped…
I agree with Everett, Reading others people view points would be refreshing. Though I doubt it will be strong at first, as culture taboos may still be strongly held.
ah Kevin wrong post buddy.
@ 1 Proofreading is my friend
It’d be nice if there could be some…
Just a note: Persian is not the correct way to refer to Iran’s official language – it’s Farsi.
Kevin, I agree with you!
nice move..
Interesting concept
http://www.yupnup.com
The question is, when will Google index blogger posts from legitimate bloggers?
Through of blogs we updated of an informal and indirect form. It is good idea to do it in different languages…
Count me in on wanting a DECENT translation of blogs in other languages too.
Iran is not as close as you mentioned.
I have some posts in my blog about politics with critical voice about government and so many other bloggers too but non of use got any alarm.