Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Google News Now in Tamil Language

Google India today reiterated its strong focus on serving Tamil speakers by launching a new edition of Google News™ in Tamil and Tamil transliteration on Google Search, Blogger™ and orkut™ .

Google believes that these launches will make it quicker and easier for the large population conversant in Tamil to be able to search for news and other information and to communicate with their friends and families.

This is the third Google News edition to be launched in India, after English and Hindi.

Google News™ in Tamil, like other news editions, gathers news stories from the various Tamil news sources on the web and presents an automatically generated summary with links to the most important stories in each section.

The Google News model is aimed at sending readers the best sources of news. Every link to a news story takes the reader to the news site where they can read the story in its entirety.

Google's transliteration technology enables the conversion from English text to phonetically equivalent text in Indian languages. So users can type their text in English and it will be converted to Tamil.

Tamil speaking users can now locate the various sites at :

Google News in Tamil: http://news.google.co.in/news?ned=ta_in

Google Search in Tamil:http://www.google.co.in/ta/

Blog in Tamil:http://blogger.com/indic/ta

Send scraps to your orkut friends in Tamil:http://www.orkut.com/Scrapbook.aspx

Tamil is the administrative language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, It has official status in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore and is also spoken by significant minorities in Malaysia, Mauritius and Vietnam.