Google News Blog: Bringing relevant news to you, regardless of language

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Bringing relevant news to you, regardless of language

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

At the same time, we hope readers will benefit from finding relevant news in other languages and being able to read it without knowing the language.

Posted by Yaroslav Kurovtsev, Software Engineer, Google Translate To help bridge language barriers between you and the news of interest to you from around the world -- and to bring you more diverse perspectives on foreign events -- we’ve added a new “translate” button to the expandable story boxes in the U.S. English edition of Google News. Clicking the translate button reveals the English translation of the original headline using Google Translate. Clicking on the headline takes you to the publisher’s website where you can choose to use Google Translate to see an English version of the entire article. Headlines are labeled with their country of origin. To do this, we look for foreign articles from local sources on a relevant news topic. For example, in the case of the flood in Thailand, in addition to surfacing English articles from international press like New York Times, we might show a related article from a local source like อาร์วายที9.