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	<title>Design Across Cultures &#187; W3C</title>
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		<title>Culture and focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Affective Design asks: How does culture affect what we focus on? Some interesting recommendations&#8230;

	
		Design for eastern cultures should take more notice of the contextual elements that work together to build the design. Design for western cultures should acknowledge that a central object will be the focus of attention, and make sure that object is fully [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Affective Design asks: <a href="http://www.affectivedesign.org/archives/133">How does culture affect what we focus on?</a> Some interesting recommendations&#8230;</p>

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		<p>Design for eastern cultures should take more notice of the contextual elements that work together to build the design. Design for western cultures should acknowledge that a central object will be the focus of attention, and make sure that object is fully realized.</p>
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		<title>Cross-language searches on Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 02:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	According to TechCrunch, Google is soon to announce a cross-language search tool:

	
		&#8221;... queries will be auto translated into other languages to retrieve more results, and all results will then be translated back into the original query language.&#8221;
	

	Search results in both languages are to be presented side-by-side. This seems like an interesting approach to multi-language searching; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/16/google-to-launch-cross-language-search-engine/">According to TechCrunch</a>, Google is soon to announce a cross-language search tool:</p>

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		<p>&#8221;... queries will be auto translated into other languages to retrieve more results, and all results will then be translated back into the original query language.&#8221;</p>
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	<p>Search results in both languages are to be presented side-by-side. This seems like an interesting approach to multi-language searching; I&#8217;m eager to see it in action.</p>




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