Google has come out with a cross-language search feature, using which users can search foreign language web pages in their own native language. According to Google vice president of engineering Udi Manber, the feature will “in effect, make the Web universal.”
This feature is at its beta stage where only a few languages are supported and may contain some errors but it would be informative and usable as a whole. It enables the user to conduct multi-lingual searches of the Internet, and then translates the findings into the user’s language of choice.
For now, the languages covered are: French, Arabic, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and traditional and simplified Chinese.
To check it out, go to Google’s Cross Language Information Retrieval.
Via: BizReport
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Cool! They had search, they had translate. And it must have hit them..”Wham! Now we can translate and search!”