San Francisco – Google Inc. planned to introduce a feature Wednesday that automatically translates Internet search requests and results in 12 languages, underscoring the rapidly growing company’s ambitions outside the United States.
The tools allow Google’s users to enter search requests in their native languages and then choose to have the phrases as well as the accompanying results automatically translated into another language.
Users can then click on a link and have the entire page translated through a service Google already offers.
Google expects the new translation service for search results to be particularly popular outside of the United States and Britain because so much of the Internet’s content is published in English.
Besides English, Google’s search results translator works in Arabic, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese.
