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one many of us have experienced: searching in non-Latin character sets when the
keyboard is not configured for those languages. The need was driven by the fact that
Tang and his family are bilingual, meaning they often want to search in more than
just English. Tang also observed that "if you simply search down to the simplest
equation, there are two sides. Output, which Google has solidl~ nailed down, and
input, which is very 'relevant when searching in foreign text." 1 The input side is
harder because computers are initially designed for the user to input text in one
language, and anything else requires the user to make changes.
Babelplex does the work for you by using AltaVista's Babelfish Translation , Google
Translate, or Yahoo Language Search tools and the AltaVista , Google, or Yahoo
search tools to run parallel queries in two languages. Take a look at the Babelplex
homepage and you'll get the idea:
Babelplex
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