Google translator now understands Hindi

LONDON: Identifying the importance that Google accords to the expanding Indian market, the web search giant has launched Hindi as one of the languages on its popular Google Translate application.

Google has announced the addition of ten new languages to its Google Translate feature, bringing the total of available tongues to 23. The newcomers are Hindi, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.

Followed by Google's move to capture Chinese market, the company sees big opportunity in the growing Indian market and the increased use of the search engine and other products. Google Translator is a free tool providing translation services to internet users. The availability of Hindi in its translation application will give a boost to search engine's use in the Indian market.

Google Translate automatically translates text and web pages. In a quick test we changed the IT Week web site from English into Spanish. The page was translated
very quickly, and did format correctly.

Nonetheless, the product is useful in a very narrow sense that it cannot translate intricate phrases and sentences and can be of help only for a very limited purpose.

Last year, Google had launched an India-serving innovation platform, Google
India Labs, and two India facing products- Google Local Search and Google Local Business Centre.