The following excerpt is from a March 19, 2010 article published by The Economic Times. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
MEXICO CITY: Internet giant Google is adding two native Central American languages — Maya and Nahuatl — to its universal search service, a company official said Thursday.
Searches in these two pre-Columbian languages and mobile satellite-linked connections to the Internet are part of Google’s growth strategy,” Google’s Mexico marketing technology director Miguel de Alva said.
“The two languages are of interest to online searchers because the first (Maya) is spoken by 1.5 million people and the second (Nahuatl), by more than one million.”…
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