Recently Google has added 40 languages to its services and now Google has added support for Tamil. On August 6, 2008 Google has released Tamil version Google news. Google has recognize that entering Tamil text through keyboard is very hard task, Google’s transliteration technology enables the conversion from English text to phonetically equivalent text in Indian languages. For example, using transliteration, you could type “vanakkam” and we would convert it to Tamil script as ???????. Google has embedded this technology in it’s several other services also.

Google search in Tamil enables users to start typing in English and automatically get query suggestions in Tamil. If you wanted to enter the query “ponniyin selvan” in Tamil, just start typing it in English - e.g. “ponni” and we will show the Tamil suggestions

Tamil transliteration in Blogger is designed for bloggers publishing content in Tamil when using the English keyboard for text entry. It’s our hope that this will make Tamil content more popular and more easily available online.

Tamil transliteration in orkut makes it easier to communicate with friends and family by exchanging scraps in Tamil.

Source Google Blog

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