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CORANTE John Yunker is founder of Byte Level Research and author of the widely acclaimed book, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies and editor of Global By Design.

He has covered the emerging field of Web globalization for half a decade and has published a wide range of reports dedicated to best practices in Web localization and internationalization.
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November 23, 2004
Finally, A Search Engine For BilingualsEmail This EntryPrint This Entry
Posted by John Yunker

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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Babelplex: Search in Two Languages from John Battelle's Searchblog
Meant to post this a couple weeks ago, and now SEW and Corante have gotten the word out: Bableplex is a new tool that allows you to search side by side results in two languages. This is the first search based project for Babelplex's author, HK Tang. Bo... [Read More]

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