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Google in Tamil
August 18, 2008
The global nature of
our mission
is reflected in the phrases the "world's information" and "universally accessible." To this end, you may have recently read about our
40-language initiative
and
the story
of a community coming together to develop Google search in the
Maori language
.
Following on this theme, we'd like to highlight a few new products that enable a better online experience for Tamil speakers around the world.
First, we just
released
Google News in Tamil
. Like other Google News editions, we gather stories from the various Tamil news sources on the web and present an automatically- generated summary with links to the most important stories in each section.
We recognize that it can sometimes be hard to enter Tamil text with existing keyboards. Our transliteration technology enables the conversion from English text to phonetically equivalent text in Indian languages. For example, using transliteration, you could type "vanakkam" and we would convert it to Tamil script as வணக்கம். We have embedded this technology in several Google products to make it easier to enter text in Tamil.
Google search in Tamil
enables users to start typing in English and automatically get query suggestions in Tamil. If you wanted to enter the query "ponniyin selvan" in Tamil, just start typing it in English - e.g. "ponni" and we will show the Tamil suggestions:
Tamil transliteration in Blogger
is designed for bloggers publishing content in Tamil when using the English keyboard for text entry. It's our hope that this will make Tamil content more popular and more easily available online.
Tamil transliteration in orkut
makes it easier to communicate with friends and family by exchanging scraps in Tamil.
We hope that each of these products will help to bring the benefits of the Internet to the millions of Tamil speakers in India and elsewhere.
Posted by Vinodh Kumar R and Naren Manappa, Software Engineers
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