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December 19, 2008
Google Enables Cross-Language Search for Enterprise Search Appliance
If your business is global, then you likely have many documents in foreign languages. In order to help employees find documents in languages other than their first, Google has enabled cross-language searching for enterprise customers using the Google Search Appliance.
Queries will be passed through a translation engine which will enable search in several languages. Users can choose the document to be returned to them in any of the available languages.
Google Mini and Google Search Appliance owners can head to this link at Enterprise Labs to check out the new feature.
Posted by Nathania Johnson on December 19, 2008 10:01 AM
Comments
As a lifelong professional translator, I can tell you that this implies two HUGE prerequisites that are never satisfied:
a) the original information, generaly in English, is written clearly and without any ambiguity, which is almost never the case (just read any instruction that comes with any product) ;
b) the electronic translation system has been conceived by good experienced translators working exclusively toward their mother tongue, which is even more rare.
In clear, experience shows that, in cases like this, attention is paid to hardware, but the software is always taken for granted and hence neglected. You could give a keyboard to a monkey and get better result.
Let us hope that for once somebody will try to get good writers and good translators for this project.
Andre Sirois
Andre Sirois December 19, 2008 11:16 AM
