Google News Senegal has Arrived!

August 31, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

google_news_senegalGoogle continues to expand into Africa with Google News Senegal, or rather, Google Actualités pour le Sénégal. The service pulls news from major Senegalese newspapers, as well as from other papers throughout francophone Africa.

A quick look at the front page shows news that seems to be aimed as much as francophone Africa as Senegal. Headlines include news from Gabon, Togo, Niger, Guinée-Conakry, Libya, and South Africa. I don’t know why it surprised me to find that almost all of the headlines come from African news sources. Despite the frequent appearance of news from Africa in French news sources, Google Senegal has made the choice to highlight African news by Africans.

Localized Google already exists for several countries in Africa, but also for several African languages, such as Yarouba and Luganda.

(hat tip: TechMASAI)

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About the author: Theresa Carpenter Sondjo is an entrepreneur and web developer. She lives in Cotonou, where she and her partner run People Online. Their mission is simple: la mise en ligne du Bénin. Follow her on Twitter at @theresac.
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