<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Aloha e Te Taka, and mahalo to you for your kokua and guidance in bringing this to fruition.<div><br></div><div>At this point the Hawaiian link is not available yet, we're waiting for the Google engineers to activate that. The reason for pushing the newspaper articles out was that because of the tight integration of Safari with Mac OS, some Safari users who had chosen Hawaiian as their primary language in OS X (under the language preferences) were already seeing the Hawaiian interface! This was a surprise to me and those who saw it. One person actually (jokingly, I hope) emailed and asked if I had hacked his computer and caused Google to show in Hawaiian. So for that reason we went ahead and announced it, explaining that the option of choosing the Hawaiian interface would be available to uses of other browsers and platforms soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Feedback has so far been positive. I've told people how to set their language preferences and so far no problems. Will report as further deployment happens.</div><div><br></div><div>Mahalo again,</div><div><br></div><div>Keola</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 11 ʻAu. 2009, at 4:00 PM, Te Taka Keegan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Aloha Keola,<div><br></div><div>Congratulations on all your efforts to get it completed. I, perhaps more than anyone, have a fair idea of all those twists and turns... you deserve a lot of acknowledgement for your determination and the long hours of your 'volunteer' work! </div> <div><br></div><div>Were you able to 'officially launch it' or was it just the newspaper articles?</div><div><br></div><div>Also any feedback yet about its usage?</div><div><br></div><div>Mahalo</div><div><br></div> <div>Te Taka</div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/12 Keola Donaghy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donaghy@hawaii.edu">donaghy@hawaii.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div style="word-wrap:break-word">Aloha Phil, mahalo for posting the story and for your kind thoughts. It was a long haul with a few twists and turns along the way, but definitely worthwhile doing. Thanks also for this wonderful resource and the support you provide for these kinds of projects.<div> <br></div><div>Keola</div><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>On 11 ʻAu. 2009, at 6:18 AM, phil cash cash wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Congrats Keola! It is always good to see your work (and everybody at the UofH Hilo) getting recognition. peace,<br> <br>Phil Cash Cash<br>UofA<br><br>Quoting phil cash cash <<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>>:<br> <br> > Google in Hawaiian now available<br> ><br> > Updated at 3:57 am, Tuesday, August 11, 2009<br> > Tags: google, hawaiian language, kalena silva, te taka keegan, uh-hilo<br> ><br> > MEDIA RELEASE<br> > <a href="http://www.hawaii247.org/2009/08/11/google-in-hawaiian-now-available/" target="_blank">http://www.hawaii247.org/2009/08/11/google-in-hawaiian-now-available/</a><br> ><br> > The University of Hawaii at Hilo has announced the development of a Hawaiian<br> > language interface for Google, the world’s most popular Internet <br> > search engine.<br> </blockquote></div><br></div> </div><div> <span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px 0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 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style="font-family:Courier">========================================================================</span></span></font></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier">Keola Donaghy</span></span><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"> </span></span></font></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier">Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies</span></span><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"> </span></span></font></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier">Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani </span></span><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"><a href="mailto:keola@leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu" target="_blank">keola@leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu</a></span></span><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"> </span></span></font></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier">University of Hawai'i at Hilo </span></span><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"><a href="http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/" target="_blank">http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/</a></span></span></font></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:17px;font-family:Lucida Grande;font-size:14px"><font face="Courier" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Courier"><br style="font-family:Courier"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier">"Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam."</span></span><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier">(Irish Gaelic saying)</span></span></font></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier">A country without its language is a country without its soul.</span></span></font></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier">========================================================================</span></span></font></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><br></div><br></span></div></span> </div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: 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class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">========================================================================</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Keola Donaghy</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "> </span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "> </span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><a href="mailto:keola@leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu">keola@leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "> </span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">University of Hawai'i at Hilo </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><a href="http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/">http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/</a></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 17px; ; font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Courier; "><br style="font-family: Courier; "></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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