Suggestion: Give search results in multiple languages

Here I would like to give a suggestion and I think if it will be done then dmoz will create most unique look for surfers,

Befor this if we will make a search for "computer" in dmoz then it displays only english results. But I would like to suggest that if a person search for "computer" then dmoz should show results in english and all available languages.

Before this I have suggested to show page numbers on bottom like Gooooogle.

Thanks for your precious times.

Please try to give an informative title to the thread when you start one. "Administrators and editors must read" is not a helpful title.

The search results are already multilingual. Look at this page, for example -- it includes results from English, Nederlands, Italiano, Español, and Deutsch.

You seem to think DMOZ is a search engine. Well, it isn't.
As has been explained several times our search is not intended to find all sites for a certain term, and it will most probably not find all categories for such a common term as computer. You might have noticed that the number of sites returned for this search is 10.000, That is the maximum, search will stop when it reaches that number and dispplay the sites and categories it has found at that moment.
If you want to find sites and categories in German go to World/Deutsch and restrict the search to this category path.

We know our search could be improved, and so does the technical staff at AOL. But our resources are limited and search is doing what it was originaly intended to do.

Search is intented to direct people (visitors looking for information, websiteowners suggesting their site and editors) to a category that matches what they are looking for. From there on they are supposed to use the directory structure. In directories you find information by following their category structure not by searching.

But there is an other method to do what you want. Use Google's advance search, resticting your search to dmoz.org. They (G) seem to be very good at searching

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images

Results 1 - 10 of about 83,600 from dmoz.org for computer

motsa said:

Please try to give an informative title to the thread when you start one. "Administrators and editors must read" is not a helpful title.

I apoligize for this motsa

The search results are already multilingual. Look at this page, for example -- it includes results from English, Nederlands, Italiano, Español, and Deutsch.

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I think you could not understand what I want to say.

If you will write "computer" then will the result will come in Spanish language? In Spanish language computer called "ordenador".

Thanks

pvgool said:

You seem to think DMOZ is a search engine. Well, it isn't.

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I know it is not a search engine but directory but you facilitate to people in find the websites with the help of search. So I suggested for this.

I know about google search but I am not talking here about google I am talking about dmoz.

Thanks

If you will write "computer" then will the result will come in Spanish language? In Spanish language computer called "ordenador".

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Is there any search engine on the planet that actually does that or even plans to do that? The search tool on the ODP is likely always going to be a lot simpler than Google's search, no matter how much it's improved, and AFAIK even Google isn't planning to implement that in their search.

If you will write "computer" then will the result will come in Spanish language? In Spanish language computer called "ordenador".

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I understand what you mean, but think that it would in fact make the search rather less useful. If I want to find Spanish-language results I'll search for "ordenator", not for "computer". If I want Swedish-language results I'll search for "dator", not "computer". My opinion is that it's always better not to include results that you have explicitly not searched for. (It is something Google doesn't do particularly well, unfortunately. You get all kinds of irrelevant things that look almost like your search term, because the Googlites think they can guess what you want. That irritates me no end, because when I search for something I want to find that, not something unrelated that somebody else thinks I probably want to find instead!)

The implementation would be very difficult as well. Very few words have only one translation into any other language. In addition, many words have more than one disctinct meaning within the same language. And many words exist in many languages with completely different meanings. So all in all it would be a lot of work to make search considerably less useful.

editpk said:

I know it is not a search engine but directory but you facilitate to people in find the websites with the help of search. So I suggested for this.

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No, we don't. We facilitate people to find categories. In doing so we also present them with a number of sites were the word they are looking for is available in either title or description. But it all is about finding categories. If you want to find websites you must first be able to find the category in which they are listed.

If you will write "computer" then will the result will come in Spanish language? In Spanish language computer called "ordenador".

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As far as I know no search engine delivers this function.
But indirectly DMOZ does provide you this service.
Search for computer.
You find the category http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/
And there we have links to all languages that also have a computers category. Just click them. Problem solved.
You knew the word in English and we provide you with information in 79 languages. What more do you want. No search engine will provide you this service.

motsa said:

The search results are already multilingual. Look at this page, for example -- it includes results from English, Nederlands, Italiano, Español, and Deutsch.

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If you will see it searched only word "computer" either it is under english or non english category and if you will go nea's comments

My opinion is that it's always better not to include results that you have explicitly not searched for.

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then these should not come from other languages.

I am confused.

That's because it searches for the exact word computer. The search finds sites regardless of language where the word "computer" appears in the title or description.

That is the point which I want to disclose that if it will search word "computer" in multilingual languages then what is the problem? But I think it is not possible so.....

Our search doesn't search for a word semantically, it just searches for a bunch of joined together letters - as do most proper search engines AFAIAA.