Orkut In Indian Languages Doesn’t Impress
By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 02 Sep 2007 09:49 PM PST
Google owned Orkut has introduced an interface which allows users access the site in multiple languages: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. I tried the Hindi interface, and found that not all the content on a page is in Hindi (screencap). It doesn’t impress, because it caters only to the multilingual user...but it’s a start. Google doesn’t seem to have added its transliteration feature for Indic languages yet to Orkut, which means I couldn’t post a scrap in Hindi. They do mention the transliteration feature in the post announcing the introduction of multiple languages, here. Recently, the site has undergone a design overhaul, and the Orkut blog has related posts here, here and here, though there’s apparently much more to be done.
