Keyword for Valves - Different Countries?

The search engines do find foreign words

Een kogelkraan of bolkraan is een kraan die de stroming van een vloeistof of gas geheel of gedeeltelijk afsluit met een doorboorde bol (kogel) die om zijn ...
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogelkraan

(but not very helpful for most)

The other option is to use direct translation

Kraan = tap, valve, cock

kogel = imitate, tease etc

Have fun

Dear,

Thanks for your reply. China has a local search engine: www.baidu.com

If we use the keywords "kogelkraan" to search, we got so many results. Is it impossible to find out our link if the person from Netherland use the keyword "kogelkraan" to search something by their local search engines? We don't know if all the people from Netherland will only choose English Keywords to do this job.

I think if it quack's like a duck you call it a duck. I think your over thinking it to much! The inventor called it a ball valve. If you need to search for a ball valve in any country you just type in ball valve...that's how they will find you.

Good Luck Mr.Salesman!

Here is a light hearted history and trivia on the ball valve.

Ball Valve history does not go back to ancient Greece or the American revolution or does it? The modern ball vale was invented in 1967 or about 1957 according to different sources. Who cares when the ball valve was invented? Besides the patented owner, probably not many people. Still the ball valve was major advancement over plug valves used in the 20th century. The earliest ball valves were commercially available around 1967. For ancient parallels, the ruins of Pompeii turned up a bronze tapered plug quarter turn valve that resembles to the ball valve today. How's that for a ball valve mystery?

Ball Valve Birth Pains

Ball Valve researchers point to a spherical ball-type valve patented in 1871 led to the invention of today's ball valve. This ball valve was an all brass valve- brass ball and brass seats. Apparently this ball valve didn't storm the market and was not mentioned in valve catalogs of the late 1800's While today's ball valve is quite a recent invention, the idea for this ball valve has been around about 125 years. The first resilient seated ball valve patent was issued in April,1945. Legend has it the company's marketing department could not envision a use for the valve and it was not manufactured. Oh well, that's the way the ball valve bounces...Given the huge reliance on the ball valve today, it's a mystery why it took so long for people to invent and use the ball valve.

Dear Sir,

Thanks for your message. Most people from Brazil don't speak English, so they have to use their own language to search. They will use "válvula de esfera" to find the suppliers by their local search engines right?

That is my opinion.

You could presumably solve this problem by creating a database of all normal valve terms translated into all common languages, and then donate/sell it to Googol . Best of luck on this daunting project!

I guess using English will be already fine for customers looking for, most of the people in the world, speaking English, right? So if buyer willing to get good supplier in China, I guess definetly they will use the English keyword to seach what they need, cause they know Chinese speak English, not other langues:p

Good luck! Salesman