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Google launches Tamil News and Tamil transliteration

Indiantelevision.com Team

(5 August 2008 5:00 pm)

BANGALORE: Google India has launched of new editions of Google News in Tamil and Tamil transliteration on Google Search, Blogger and orkut.

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

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

Tamil transliteration in Blogger will enable users to publish content in Tamil while using English keyboard for text entry. This is intended to make Tamil content more popular and more easily available in the online world. Tamil transliteration on Orkut will allow to exchange scraps in Tamil.