CompuSutra » custom search http://compusutra.com Untangling the web of daily computing... Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:00:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Google Adds Urdu Transliteration to Custom Search http://compusutra.com/2009/07/google-adds-urdu-transliteration-to-custom-search/ http://compusutra.com/2009/07/google-adds-urdu-transliteration-to-custom-search/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:20:07 +0000 admin http://compusutra.com/?p=806 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.

Googe Custom Search TransliterationAutomatic 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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