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Google Sightseeing now Available in Six Languages!

Posted by James Turnbull, Wednesday, 9th July 2008

Today we’re extremely proud to be launching three new translations of Google Sightseeing: Dutch, German and Spanish!

These three new blogs join our successful existing translations of French and Italian, so you can now come sightseeing around Google Earth with us in 6 different languages.

We have three new authors who will be translating all the best posts from the English language GSS for their own languages, as well as posting some of their own language specific stuff as well.

See our very first Press Release for more details (which is, naturally, available in 6 languages).

Eventually we’d like Google Sightseeing to be available to everyone, so we plan to expand into even more languages in the future – if you’re fluent in another language (especially any of the languages offered by Google Earth) and would like to have your own Google Sightseeing blog then please get in touch.

8 Responses to 'Google Sightseeing now Available in Six Languages!'

  1. Rob says:

    And for your first test, who can successfully take on the translation of “Speaking to himself while writing this press release in the third person, James Turnbull said” in the press release?

  2. Muka says:

    Clicked on “get in touch” and got “page not found” :(

  3. James says:

    @Muka, Oh yeah, uh, that was a test – you passed! :D

    (I’ve fixed the link, thanks)

  4. dr.R. says:

    So, who are these new authors? We want to know all the details – name, age, credit card number…

  5. Romanov says:

    Great! GSS in Dutch! But I’ll keep reading the English version. One learns some vocabulary and expressions here! :)

  6. Tammo says:

    I second Dr R: I think they deserve a mention.

  7. James says:

    @dr.R, Tammo:

    de.gss is written by Andreas Hüner, from Berlin.

    es.gss is written bt Eduardo Moreno, a student from Mexico.

    nl.gss is written by Robert de Bock, who also writes IT articles.

    But I’m sure they could each tell you much more about themselves…

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