Google Launches “Search Without Boundaries”
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Written By Kate Zimmermann | May 24, 2007 | Share This
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Google Translate got a little more sophisticated today, allowing people to search international pages in their own language. An English-speaking person could search for “hiking trails Tuscany” within Italian search results, for example, or an Italian speaker could find “ristoranti italiani” in New York. The translation works across characters too - Chinese (simplified or traditional), Arabic, and Russian translations are all available. From the Official Google blog,
“While machine translation is not perfect, it’s usually good enough for you to obtain the gist of information in a language you might otherwise be unable to access. We think this feature will be particularly useful for our international users since although the majority of Internet users out there are non English speakers, a majority of the content on the internet is still in English.”
Only 12 languages are available for translation, but the service is still just a beta. Search Engine Land points out that Yahoo has offered similar multi-lingual search results since 2005.
Further Reading
- Search Google in Another Language (Pandia)
- Small Step for Google… (Windows Live Spaces Blog)
- Google Launches Search Translation Service (Yahoo News)
Topics: Google, International |
Did you see the new iGoogle? I’ve got a google homepage showing yahoo, gmail, and hotmail at the same time! Its like I don’t need to go to any other websites now, all my news sites are in little gadgets too.
Google would retain its glory by doing bold moves such as these process of universal search, and the strategies of buying media and security companies.
such as YouTube, and the other companies out there…Let’s discuss this further, reach me at:
http://forum.affiliatebot.com/register.php