Last month Google had announced on its Custom Search Blog that transliteration had been enabled in Custom Search for a set of languages,
“making it easier to find news in Arabic, Indian news in Hindi, your favorite Bollywood song lyrics, or local content in a bunch of other Indic languages – Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. Other languages will be enabled soon.”
Google has lived up to its promise and today it announced that Urdu and Nepali have been added to the mix.
Majority of the new languages added are Indic languages, apparently due to the multiplicity of scripts used for these languages.
Automatic transliteration needs to be configured in the Custom Search control panel using the Language settings. According to the Google Custom Search blog “It will enable conversion of Roman characters to the above languages, allowing users to search for content in these languages. After you turn transliteration on, you can select the specific transliteration languages your users can use.”
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