The Multilingual Search that Google Imagines
Posted Under: Federated Search, Multilingual Search
Earlier this year, Deep Web Technologies announced the development of a multilingual translation capability. Since then, we’ve been talking with a number of people regarding this groundbreaking service that will be released in 2010. Don DePalma, Chief Research Officer at Common Sense Advisory wrote a post on the 17th of December about this feature. Please visit his company blog to read the entire article.
Clicking on the Advanced Search tab, we thought of the U.N. Climate Change Conference as we looked for “global warming.” We limited our search to sources in the Czech Academy of Science, just two of the dozens of scientific sites from around the world in languages ranging from Chinese to Japanese to Russian. The first hit was an English-language paper on “Modeling mortality risks due to heat stress in East Asia” from the Czech Academy, while the second was “Budeme žít v globálním Somálsku? : O klimatickém konci civilizace a strachu z katastrofy” (”will we live in a global Somalia? The climatic end of civilization and fear of disaster”). Being in a 2012 on-the-road kind of mood, we also looked for “pandemic” in a broader pool of sites, yielding French, Chinese, and Spanish articles (click here for a screenshot of our query results).
What happened behind the scenes? Deep Web translated the search terms into the languages of the sources, searched them, and returned some translated details.
