Just when I thought I’d seen every type of search engine, along comes Babelplex. Babelplex takes a search string, translates it into another language and searches on both languages at once.
Its name comes from the Web-based machine translation software, Babel Fish.
Click here to search on “Web globalization” in English and Chinese.
This could be a handy tool for testing Google adwords in other markets. Apart from that, I’m not sure how I’d use it just yet, at least not until I improve on my Spanish.
I can’t imagine Google will look too kindly at its design:
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John is co-founder of Byte Level Research and author of Think Outside the Country as well as 19 editions of The Web Globalization Report Card.
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