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Finally, A Search Engine For Bilinguals

Written by John Yunker Posted on by John Yunker

John is president of Byte Level Research and author of The Web Globalization Report Card. He is based in San Diego, California.

Just when I thought I’d seen every type of search engine, along comes Babelplex. Babelplex takes a search string, translates it into another language and searches on both languages at once.

Its name comes from the Web-based machine translation software, Babel Fish.

Click here to search on “Web globalization” in English and Chinese.

This could be a handy tool for testing Google adwords in other markets. Apart from that, I’m not sure how I’d use it just yet, at least not until I improve on my Spanish.

I can’t imagine Google will look too kindly at its design:

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