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Google Takes On Tower of Babel

What's next for the notoriously ambitious Google? Nothing less than obliterating humanity's many language barriers, according to Marissa Mayer, the company's vice president for search products and user experience. "Imagine what it would be like if there was a tool built into the search engine which translated my search query into every language and then searched the entire world's Web sites," she tells the Telegraph. "And then invoked the translation software a second and third time -- to not only then present the results in your native language, but then translate those sites in full when you clicked through."

At the moment, for consumers using the English language, Google's servers only crawl English-language sites and deliver English-language results.

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