Just a week after introducing the over hyped universal search whereby the different Google data sets are culled to come up with a unified search results, Google adds up another feature into its web search. This time eliminating a great barrier to information dissemination and utilization – language. Google translate which launches today in beta version, allows users to search the web in one language and have the results translated into a language of their choice.
This feature currently available for some major languages and will be available to others in the near future. You can choose to translate an English language search result into say Arabic, French, Chinese, German, among other prominent languages of the world.
Sounds neat eh? But there’s more to this Google translate service than what it actually is. Google was ever so kind enough to include pre-selected options to embed a translation toolbar right into a user’s bookmark toolbar. So, with a single click you can translate a search result from English to German, German to French and what-have-you’s.
Now that’s what I call, a truly universal search function.
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There is still a lot of work with the quality of the translations (english -> german). I made a search for “vacation” and the translated results were bad. It is a nice feature for the future, but at the moment it is only a beta.
David is right. I also noticed that also.
I know that the Russian translation is Beta, but there seems to be some bad wiring in this new search. It doesn’t seem to be translating anything from the Russian pages. And the result pages are pretty spammy
But the old tried and true “Translate Text” box works well enough. I copy and paste Russian in there and it spits out some halfway intelligible English.
So something is not hooked up right.
Usually Google puts something in beta with very few bugs. This should be called a Microsoft beta – it isn’t ready for primetime.