Google adds link to selected automatically translated search results in Non-English versions of the search engine.
Google [NSDQ:GOOG] has spent millions on its translation program. You may think this is mainly to compete with other online machine translation services like Yahoo’s Babelfish. It is actually much more.
The goal is to make web pages in most languages available for searchers, regardless of their own first language. Hence if you use the Norwegian version of Google over at google.no, the search results may include a link to translated versions of Non-Norwegian web sites. This way Google will gain some satisfied users and even more pages on which to place ads.
There are only some 5 million people who speak and write Norwegian, which means that there are a limited number of web sites available in that language. Including translated sites in search results will widen the amount of information available for Norwegians.
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Original post by WiadomoÅ
