Perhaps the most significant additions are Simplified and Traditional Chinese, which give Google access to the potentially huge but largely untapped Chinese market. Other additions include Dutch, French, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

Google has been promoting the notion of online office suites, where documents can be accessed from any Web browser and shared between different users. So far, it hasn't charged for the products -- arguably a sensible move given that the range of functions offered is still much smaller than those found in PC-based alternatives such as Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.

Interestingly, Systrom suggested that the only difference between the US and the UK language variants was the spelling of the word 'colour'. This implies that the localisation doesn't extend to the help documentation, but in fact it does, with words like 'organise' appearing in the correct UK spelling on that version of the service.
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