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Hyderabad, Aug. 6 Google India has announced the launch of Google News in Tamil and Tamil transliteration facility on Google Search, Blogger and Orkut platforms.

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

According to Google, this will make it quicker and easier for the large population conversant in Tamil to be able to search for news and other information and to communicate with their friends and families.

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

Every link to a news story, according to a Google statement, takes the reader to the news site where they can read the story in its entirety. Since it is sometimes difficult to enter Tamil text with the existing keyboards, Google’s transliteration technology enables the conversion from English text to phonetically equivalent text in Indian languages.

Google search in Tamil allows users to start typing in English and automatically get query suggestions in Tamil. Tamil transliteration in Blogger enables users to publish content in Tamil while using English keyboard for text entry.

This is intended to make Tamil content popular and easily available in the online world. Tamil transliteration in Orkut will make it easier to communicate with friends and family by exchanging scraps in Tamil.

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