[ILUG-BOM] How to design multilingual website

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On 19-Sep-06, at 4:40 PM, Vinayak Hegde wrote:

>> ahh, that sounds like fun - so i generate all possible pages in all
>> possible languages and store them - but what about search and query
>> results - do i generate all possible searches and all possible
>> queries in all possible languages and store them too?
>
> Not all possible pages but atleast the most requested ones can be  
> cached
> based on query string (GET) or POST data of HTTP. There are quite a  
> few
> websites that do it. A large online US retailer for example stores  
> generated
> for frequent queries such as "britney spears cds" with a fairly low  
> cache-TTL
> as such catalogues do not get updated very often. (Catalogues such as
> these are often updated in weeks and months if not days).

but these guys only have one language to deal with


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Kenneth Gonsalves
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