Google Argentina: www.google.com.ar: Google ar: Google Buenos Aires

Google Argentina (www.google.com.ar) ranks between #120 and #130 in Alexa Traffic Rank worldwide. It ranks #2 in Argentina, behind Facebook, and ahead of YouTube, google.com, Windows Live & Yahoo!. Almost 16,000 sites link to Argentina Google, giving it a reasonably high reputation score.

A high proportion (~95%) of visitors to google.com.ar are residents of Argentina (95%), where those from Buenos Aires, Tucumán and Bahia Blanca propel it to the #1 spot. Google Arg also ranks in the top 1,000 websites in Colombia (~#150) and Spain (~#950).

A huge majority of visitors use the home page (>99%), followed by Google translate page (~8%), Google maps (~5%), and news (~3%). The top search queries are 'traductor' [translation] (~20%), 'google' (~19%), 'maps' (~7%), and 'google maps' (~6.5%).

The demographics for the site show that the audience is mainly in the younger age bracket (below 35), with a high level of education. Male visitors numbers exceed the internet norm and most browsing is undertaken from home, rather than work or school.

Products available at the top left of Google Argentina are:

1. Búsqueda - search
2. Imágenes (Images) – search Google images.
3. Notícias (News) – search for Argentinian news, local and worldwide.
4. Gmail - access or register your free account.
5. Docs - share documents with work colleagues.
6. Calendar - keep your life straight
7. Traductor (Translation) - to and from 50+ languages.
8. Libros (Books).

The [más] link gives these additional Google products: Blogger, Reader and Videos.

Footer links are:

• iGoogle
• advertising programs (Programas de publicidad)
• business solutions (Soluciones Empresariales)
• 'About Google' (Todo acerca de Google).
• Google+

Google+ is the official site with news of Google Argentina (Página oficial con las novedades de Google Argentina). When you click the Google+ button the page in the screenshot below is shown. There are sections for 'post', the page you land on, 'about', 'photos' or 'videos'. These are all designed to give you everything you need to know about Google Argentina. You can get there direct using the following URL:

• plus.google.com/112209395112018703654/posts

Google.com.ar is accessible, as follows:

1. Type 'http://www.google.com.ar/' for Google Argentina home page.

2. When you are 'Argentina local' click the '"Ir a Google Argentina" or "Ir a Google Argentina, en español" link at screen footer.
3. Enter 'http://www.google.com.ar/webhp?hl=es&tab=ww' for Google Argentina in Spanish.

Remember: the URL for Google Arg is www.google.com.ar NOT www.google.ar NOR www.google.co.ar

Pages from Argentina available through the Firefox browser (Spanish version only) with the URL:

• http://www.google.com.ar/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:ar-ES:official

The Firefox page allows you to set either the (Search) Buscar: 'páginas escritas en español' button or 'páginas de Argentina' button, in place of (Search) Buscar: 'la web' button.

Copy and paste the Argentinian news or Twitter tweet item to Google translate for a translation.

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