Google Multi-Language Search Tool Is Live

window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Google released to the web its multi-language search site, as previewed recently at its Searchology event a few weeks ago. You can find the tool here, and it can currently translate only to or from English, translating Arabic, Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese, Russian and Spanish. Just choose a search term, a language to translate from and language for search results (one of which must be English), and get a page like this:

See, this person is an English speaker who wants to find Spanish pages. Google translates the query into Spanish, searches, then translates the results back into English (and displaying the original Spanish results on the right). Clicking any result on the left gets you a pre-translated page, while clicking it on the right gets you the original page. It’s a very useful tool and works […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg