Global Business Centre

A guide to Web sites around the world,
arranged by language in topic-specific directories

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bookmark this siteThe Global Business Centre is a resource that provides links to interesting Web sites throughout the world, especially those not written in English. Why not save it as a bookmark, for future reference? It will continue to grow.

The site is organized according to subject matter within each language: business, culture, online publications and e-zines (electronic magazines), index (lists of sites in this online language community), leisure, jobs, shopping and travel. Ultimately, each language represents a neighborhood unto itself in the global village.

Chinese

Japanese

Deutsch (German)

Korean

English

Nederlands (Dutch)

Español (Spanish)

Português (Portuguese)

Finnish

Scandinavia

Français (French)

Pacific Rim countries

Greek

Central/Eastern Europe

Italiano

Africa/Mideast



Since we started counting online linguistic populations in 1996, the non-English-speaking online world has exploded. This astounding growth is reflected as well in the content of Websites from these many languages. Many people living in English-speaking countries think that the entire online world surfs the Web in English. That may have been true at the beginning of the Web's popularity in 1995, but today there is a profusion of material available online in every language. Click here for an analysis of the sizes of the various online language communities.

This development makes it clear that a single-language Website will not work if you are trying to reach a maxmimum number of people in certain countries. People surf the Web in their own language: it is as much a part of their life in their own language as other media (TV, radio, printed publications, etc.). This is why our company specializes in internationalizing a Website and in driving traffic to it on a country-specific basis.

Who is accessing the Internet in other languages besides English?.

LanguageMillions online%'age of online world
English295.435.2%
Chinese110.013.7%
Spanish72.09.0%
Japanese67.18.4%
German55.36.9%
French33.34.2%
Korean31.33.9%
Italian30.43.8%
TOTAL:801 


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Editor:

The Global Business Centre is edited by Global Reach, a marketing communications consultancy that assists clients in building Website traffic from outside their home market. Web marketing is global by nature, and requires a multi-lingual approach, since each market has to be addressed in its own language. We focus on actively promoting multi-lingual Websites on a country-specific basis, and driving traffic from each targeted country.

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