Request for Product: International Searches

Through an email conversation with Jeff Chapman, we have come up with a Request for Product for Google:

Suppose you could optionally say that you’d like your search terms translated into other languages and then get returns in those languages.

For example, suppose you were looking for information on what vegans eat and for some reason you want to find English and German pages. You enter “vegans eat” into the search box and click on the “Find German pages” box. Google returns the hits for that phrase, but behind the scenes it translates your search terms into German and returns the pages that contain the phrase “Vegans essen”. It optionally translates those pages into English for you. Or, search for “environmental politics” and click on the “All languages” box, and it will translate into however many languages Google has dictionaries for.

As the engineers used to say at Interleaf, how hard could it be? You just have to get the bits in the right order :)

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