Building the Indic web

Posted by Naren Manappa, Software Engineer, and Melchi Sundararaj, Member of Technical Team

We have come a long way from our first Indic transliteration release to our current support for transliteration in 5 languages -- Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu -- for a broader set of Google products. We are also happy to release our very first English to Hindi translation service. Read on to understand how you can use these services to create, communicate and search in your language, and more.

• Type in your language easily on our Indic Transliteration Labs page.
• Add the transliteration gadget to your iGoogle page.

• Express your views and create more content: Blogger.

• Scrap your friends in your language: orkut.

• Find information: Google Suggest in your language.

You can now also try out our brand new English to Hindi translation service, and the translated search feature that lets you query in Hindi, obtain search results for the translated query in English, and then see the Hindi translations of these results.

For more information on all of these, read our press release.