What Search Engines Offer

When you go to Google, where your browser actually ends up depends on what country you're located in. Google can redirect your search to country-specific sites. But if you're in one country and you want to get information on another country, you'll have to go to Google's language tools page at http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en. Here you can limit your search both by country and by language.

Yahoo also has a huge selection of international country sites. See their list of Yahoos worldwide at http://world.yahoo.com/. Yahoo's world sites provide content in the local language. In the cases where there's more than one language—like Hong Kong—Yahoo will sometimes offer more than one language site and mark it appropriately. ...

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