Washington, DC - October 22, 2009 -- Globalization Partners International (GPI), a leading provider of website, software and documentation translation services in over 100 languages, announced today that "Glearch", its new search engine launched this year has won both a 2009 Web Marketing Association (WMA) Standard of Excellence Award AND a Gold Award from the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA)-W3 Awards. More than 2,000 sites from 45 countries were reviewed in 96 industry categories for the WMA Awards and less than 10% of entries to the IAVA-W3 Awards receive Gold Awards each year.
"Glearch (Global Search) is a mega-search engine (
www.glearch.com) for international business professionals, travelers, translators, students, researchers and anyone else who needs to easily search the web by language, by country, and by search engine," says Yasser Ahmed, Web Development Lead, GPI.
"Glearch's global map-based interface and compilation of country specific facts, web resources, maps, newspapers and top sites are at the core of the mega-search utility," says Marcelo Volmaro, Website Globalization Practice Director, GPI. "Our design and development teams are happy the competition judges and the general public feel the site meets the criteria to win awards including high marks in: creativity, usability, navigation, functionality, visual design, and ease of use".
About Globalization Partners International (GPI)Globalization Partners International, LLC (
www.globalizationpartners.com) provides document, software and website translation services into over 100 languages including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. For more information please contact: Martin Spethman; Ph: 1-866-272-5874.
About The Web AwardsThe Web Marketing Association is the producer of the WebAward Competition (
www.webaward.org). Now in its 13th year, the WebAwards is the premier annual website award competition that names the best Web sites in 96 industries while setting the standard of excellence for all website development.
About the W3 AwardsThe W³ (w3award.com ) is sanctioned and judged by the
International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, interactive, advertising, and marketing firms. IAVA members include executives from organizations such as Conde Nast, Coach, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, Fry Hammond Barr, HBO, Monster.com, MTV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Victoria Secret, Wired, Yahoo! and many others.
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