Yahoo to translate German search terms into EnglishJuly 14, 2005 
Today, Yahoo is to launch a new service that takes German search queries and translates them into English and French, and returns results in German from around the globe. Currently, less than 10 percent of all Web pages are in German, so when German speakers search the Internet for information they are missing out on the huge amount of content that may be useful to them but is in a different language, said Eckart Walther, vice president of product management at Yahoo Search. As it is now, Web searchers must know the exact word or phrase in a foreign language to get search results that are applicable beyond what is available in their own language. The beta, or test version, of Yahoo Suche (Search) Translator, available at Yahoo's German search site, will make it possible for people to search knowing only their own language.
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For example, a search for "beste vegetarisches restaurant in San Francisco" brings up about 45 search results when searching German language documents, but pulls up an additional 290,000 results when using the Yahoo Suche Translator tool. "The goal is to present the entire Web to a user, in essence, in their native language," said Walther, who speaks some German. The test site includes a search option that turns on the machine-based technology that performs the translations on the fly. After a query is typed in, it translates it into English and French, searches across the Web and provides a list of result abstracts in German. Each item has an accompanying link next to it that points back to the Web page in its original language. When a result in German is clicked on the entire Web page is then automatically translated into that language. Walther concedes that there will be mistakes because it is machine-based translation, which is not nearly as accurate as human translation. The next language Yahoo will tackle is French, followed by additional languages in Europe and Asia in the coming year, Walther said. The technology combines the company's in-house development with software supplied by Systran. Source: C-Net News  Read Serge Thibodeau's daily blogs on search engines at Serge Thibodeau Live. We strongly suggest you bookmark our web site by clicking here.  Tired of receiving unwanted spam in your in box? Get SpamArrest™ and put a stop to all that SPAM. Click here and get rid of SPAM forever! Get your business or company listed in the Global Business Listing directory and increase your business. It takes less then 24 hours to get a premium listing in the most powerful business search engine there is. Click here to find out all about it. Rank for $ales strongly recommends the use of WordTracker to effectively identify all your right industry keywords. Accurate identification of the right keywords and key phrases used in your industry is the first basic step in any serious search engine optimization program. Click here to start your keyword and key phrase research.
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