Google will launch a cross-language search engine that translates requests and responses on the fly

Udi Manber, vice president of engineering at Google (and former director of the A9 search engine at Amazon ), shared his search for the Searchology event with information that the company will soon launch an interlanguage search service. This is how it will look like:

In the screenshot (unfortunately, of very poor quality) the results in Arabic are displayed in the left column, and the English equivalents are shown in the right column.

To return more results, search queries will automatically be translated into different languages. Then the results will be transferred back to the user's native language.

This search service will be especially useful for people who speak rare languages, since there is naturally less information in this language on the Web.
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via TechCrunch .