Last week I had informed my readers about the launch of Google' translation service known as Google Translate. This service is Hindi specific and offers direct and automated translation of English text to Hindi. However, according to the Google Blog Google has added another 10 new languages to Google Translate's database, thereby bringing the total number of languages to 23. These newly added languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.

In an effort to join the field of social network data portability, Google has announced its plans to launch 'Friend Connect'. This feature will enable website owners to grow traffic by taking profile information from social networking websites and putting that information onto third party websites.

Google has announced the launch of 'Google Translate', a translation service targeted specifically for Hindi. This service will enable direct and automated translation of English text to Hindi. Currently, Google already has transliteration support for five Indian regional languages such as Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu.

Steps for the Translation Process:

• You can easily add the language Google's Indic Transliteration Labs page.
• You can add the transliteration gadget to your personalized Google Page called the iGoogle page.
  

Looks like Google's advancements in the field of online search and marketing isn't impressing its executives anymore. As BoomTown reports, Google's PR (Public Relations) head Elliot Schrage has left Google and moved to Facebook as its VP (Vice President) Communications and Public Policy. This is the latest addition to the list of executives who have left Google, the last being Google's Chief Information Officer (CIO) Douglas Merill who went to EMI Music as the President of EMI's digital music business.

Yahoo! in partnership with McAfee has announced the release of SearchScan. It will show those URLs in the Yahoo! SERPs (search engine result pages) that are deemed 'risky'. This feature will incorporate McAfee's SiteAdvisor technology. The goal of this feature is to safeguard the user against spyware and other malicious software from being downloaded on his computers. It would also assist users to prevent themselves from spammy email practices. The SearchScan feature has been implemented in the BETA phase in the U.S., Canada, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and Spain.

In what appeared to be Microsoft's dream, of becoming a Titan in the world of Information & Technology arena came crashing down as Microsoft announced that it would be withdrawing from its bid to takeover Yahoo! Inc. This about turn in the Microsoft-Yahoo! tussle came at a meeting that took place in Seattle, Washington, where Yahoo! rejected Microsoft's bid of $33 a share which amounted to a total of about $47.5 billion. The new increased bid from Microsoft was a straight jump of $5 billion. Yahoo! Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jerry Yang however, made it very clear to Microsoft that any bid below $37 a share would not be acceptable to Yahoo!.

After an impressive First Quarter Financial Results for 2008, Yahoo's CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Jerry Yang had announced that Yahoo! was open for any and all deals that would come its way, including Microsoft's bid for Yahoo!

Continuing from the last update that Microsoft had applied to Live Search Products last week, yet another critical update has been patched into its Live Search Products Service.

According to the Live Search Blog, the users would be able to perform research and find suitable deals on the products displayed within Live Search. Microsoft's new update also gives the flexibility of refining products depending upon various factors such as user opinions,.brand, prices and categories. The users will also be able to sort results by best user, expert ratings and prices.

Microsoft has announced the launch of an update to its browser based mobile search. Simply called 'Mobile Product Search', it enables a user to search for products using the Live Search on their mobile devices. MSN Live Search displays results for product queries available in its affiliated Online Stores.

The search results also include prices, ratings and reviews. Users will also benefit from the rating methodology adopted by Live Search for its product search based on features and ease of use.

Earlier this month we informed our readers that a guy named Jason Gambert had been running around in the Trademark Office trying to get the term Search Engine Optimization (SEO) trademarked. Well his wish just ran into a brick wall and now things have gotten really nasty.