Discovering the World Topic

The World topic contains entries in languages other than English. Clicking the World link from the main Google Directory page (www.google.com/dirhp) shows a listing of 76 different languages. As with other categories, those that have a significant number of entries appear in bold.

Selecting a language provides a topic listing similar to the one on the main Google Directory page, only that it is written in the language you select from the category list. You will also notice that all the descriptions and links on the page have also switched to the same language. The World topic does not appear in the alternate language versions.

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Viewing some languages requires that you first update your computer with the appropriate language character set. Alternatively, Google may display question marks where unsupported character sets appear.

The advantage of using the World topic to search for entries in other languages is that these are not English translations of pages in other languages, but rather remain in their original language allowing those searching to perform searches in their native languages.

Some of the language categories do not have the same number of topics. Topics are only displayed when content exists within those topics in that language.