In 2007, 33-year-old Vuyile moved to Cape Town from rural South Africa in search of work. Unable to complete high school, he worked as a ni...
Announcing the Africa News Innovation Challenge winners
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Digital tools are an increasing impetus for innovation across African newsrooms. From crowdsourcing content to using infographics to tell st...
Using the power of mapping to support South Sudan
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Last Thursday, the Google Map Maker team, along with the World Bank and UNITAR/UNOSAT , held a unique event at the World Bank Headquarte...
Two new Google domains: Iraq and Tunisia
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We offer search on different regional domains, such as google.fr for France and google.dj for Djibouti, in order to provide the most locally...
YouTube Highlights 2/17/2011
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This is the latest in our series of YouTube highlights. Every couple of weeks, we bring you regular updates on new product features, interes...
Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard
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Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the wee...
Voice Search in underrepresented languages
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(Cross-posted from the Google Research Blog ) Welkom*! Today we’re introducing Voice Search support for Zulu and Afrikaans, as well as South...
FIFA.com and Google team up to help fans celebrate the 2010 FIFA World Cup™
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The 2010 FIFA World Cup has kicked off in South Africa. During the month-long tournament, millions of fans around the world will follow the ...
Follow your football team in South Africa, wherever you are
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Whether you’ll be in South Africa in person this month, or simply cheering your team on from back home, our new tools for football fans can ...
Google Earth helps discover rare hominid ancestor in South Africa
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Today, scientists announced a new hominid fossil discovery in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa . The discovery is...