Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Make online search more universal!

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 2 April 2008 by member ontie

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Google has a great translation tool that allows you to translate foreign websites into English, but I was wondering if Google search results on an English keyword include results from relevant foreign websites that have been translated in English by Google's own translation software.

If Google doesn't search from a translated database of all foreign (non-English) sites, I think they should. This would require more storage capacity and thus be more costly to Google because it would mean we must replicate the amount of sites stored in the database from which search results are drawn.

On the other hand, however, such a feature will make online search truly global and with the right algorithms even more relevant!

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