Hey—we've moved. Visit
The Keyword
for all the latest news and stories from Google
Official Blog
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Google Apps goes global
July 31, 2007
Posted by Sanjay Raman, Google Apps Product Manager
Our mission is to "organize the
world's information
and make it
universally accessible
and useful." Note that twice in this eleven-word mission statement, we mention that this is a global effort, not just a problem we're solving only for English-speaking users in the U.S. That global focus is critical, because fully 65% of Internet users around the world speak a language other than English. In fact, the Internet's top 10 languages still only account for around 85% of users -- and the remaining 15% represents almost 200 million people.
As part of our broader effort to make Google accessible to more people in their native languages, we're announcing a number of updates for
Google Apps
, our customizable package of hosted communication and collaboration
applications
for businesses, schools, and other organizations. Several features and components previously available only to English users and administrators of Google Apps are now available in other languages, too. Here's a quick rundown of what's new for non-English speakers:
Google Apps
Premier Edition
for companies and organizations needing an uptime guarantee for email service, 10 gigabytes of email storage per user,
integration APIs
and multi-lingual telephone support for critical issues (support experts are available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch). Also, for a limited time, you can try Premier Edition for free for 30 days.
Google Apps
Partner Edition
for ISPs and portals that want to offer Gmail and other applications to their subscribers.
Google
Docs & Spreadsheets
, which lets Google Apps users create and collaborate in real time, right from their browsers.
The
Start Page
, a central place for Google Apps users to preview their inboxes, calendars and documents, access their organizations' essential content, and search the web.
A more user-friendly
control panel
interface for Google Apps administrators.
Mail migration tools
for administrators who want to switch from a different email system (available with Premier and Education Editions only).
Not only are we adding these features to the languages Google Apps already supports; we're also rolling Google Apps out in six more languages. Here's the full list:
French
,
Italian
,
German
,
Spanish
,
Dutch
,
Swedish
,
Norwegian
,
Danish
,
Finnish
,
Turkish
,
Polish
,
Ukrainian
,
Czech
,
Russian
,
Chinese (Simplified)
,
Chinese (Traditional)
,
Japanese
,
Korean
,
Brazilian Portuguese
,
Thai
,
Vietnamese
,
Arabic
,
Hebrew
,
Indonesian
,
Hungarian
,
UK English
and
US English
.
Labels
accessibility
41
acquisition
26
ads
131
Africa
19
Android
58
apps
419
April 1
4
Asia
39
books + book search
48
commerce
12
computing history
7
crisis response
33
culture
12
developers
120
diversity
35
doodles
68
education and research
144
entrepreneurs at Google
14
Europe
46
faster web
16
free expression
61
google.org
73
googleplus
50
googlers and culture
202
green
102
Latin America
18
maps and earth
194
mobile
124
online safety
19
open source
19
photos
39
policy and issues
139
politics
71
privacy
66
recruiting and hiring
32
scholarships
31
search
505
search quality
24
search trends
118
security
36
small business
31
user experience and usability
41
youtube and video
140
Archive
2016
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2015
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2014
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2013
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2012
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2011
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2010
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2009
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2008
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2007
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2006
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2005
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2004
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Feed
Google
on
Follow @google
Follow
Give us feedback in our
Product Forums
.
Follow
