SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 10, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Spanish
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Translator
The LiveSide blog points to a blog post which shows Microsoft has launched Windows Live Translator Beta. You can translate from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. It supports up to 500 characters and uses Systran, but can override the Systran source with their own in-house translations.
Google Sky: Search The Stars With Google Earth Sky
In Google Earth, a Service for Scanning the Heavens from the New York Times reports that Google Earth has released a new version that allows you to look up at the sky and see the galaxy. The feature is described more here. The new feature will let you virtually look up at the sky, from […]
Google Mapplets: Google Endorses Mashups, Makes Some More Interactive
The Google Lat Long Blog announced a new feature available on Google Maps that enables you to add “Mapplets” directly on the “My Maps” section. These Mapplets, often referred to as mashups, allow you to add data on top of the maps. Some of the data overlays include real estate listings, jogging trails, events and […]
Google Desktop Now Available For Linux
Google Desktop is now available for those running Linux as their operating system. You’ll find Google Desktop for Linux for download here.. Google Desktop for Linux was developed by Google’s Beijing engineering team and runs on Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, and Red Flag 5. The available languages include English, French, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 22, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Launches ‘Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR)’
As promised at its “Searchology” event last week, Google has launched cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). It’s now been added as a new feature to Google Translate and went live yesterday. As Chris Sherman previously wrote, Google is playing a bit of catch-up with this initiative; Yahoo has been doing this on a more limited basis […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
University Of Lausanne Joins Google Book Search Library Project
Both the Google Book Search Blog and the Google Librarian Central Blog have announced that University of Lausanne in Switzerland has joined the Google Book Search Library Project. The university will digitize books not only in French but also in English, German, Latin, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and other languages.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Phone Has Been Confirmed By Google Exec
Engadget reports on a Spanish blog post that Isabel Aguilera, Google’s chief executive in Spain and Portugal, has confirmed that there is a Google phone in the works. We have been reporting on these rumors for a while, so it is nice to see some possible confirmation. News.com reports Isabel Aguilera saying “some of the […]
News Search + Personalization + Social Media = Wikio
Wikio is a relatively new startup that blends articles from major news web sites and blogs with commentary and tags from Wikio users. It also offers powerful search and customization options that go beyond what you find at most other “media harvesting” sites on the web. Google News offers personalization, but doesn’t let you choose […]
PublicRoutes.com Adds Languages, Personalization
PublicRoutes.com, a service that helps you find directions from any point in several U.S. cities by subway, walking, driving or taking the bus, has added a translation feature that offers directions in 14 languages, and a feature called MyPublicRoutes, a personalization feature that remembers specific locations entered by users. PublicRoutes.com is available for New York, […]
New Features Added To Google’s Enterprise Search Appliance
A Google press release from yesterday announced that Google has added a few features to the Google Search Appliance. The new features clearly labeled include: Clustering of the results Source Biasing Options – define which sources are more authoritative than others Add languages such as French, Italian, German and Spanish and Portuguese for query stemming […]