Comments on: Inflected languages and Google

By: itman

itman — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:25:43 +0000

2-3 years ago it wasn’t supported at all. Now it understands inclensions and conjugations pretty well. The same is with Russian. German Google AFAIK became morphologically-aware even earlier. Of course, German and Russian have much bigger audience than Icelandic. In fact, I agree that this is a very respectable move. Just making a small clarification: Google starts dealing with “small” inflected languages.

By: Optimise Your Web

Optimise Your Web — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:44:04 +0000

I am not sure how supported Russian has been. The point was rather the respect Google is showing small languages by doing this.

By: itman

itman — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:30:53 +0000

Well, Russian and German are also flexional Russian is supported for about 2 years, German somewhat longer.

By: Kristjan Mar Hauksson

Kristjan Mar Hauksson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:24:25 +0000

An article writen by Olafur Kr. Olafsson at Optimiseyourweb.com called “Google, are you learning Icelandic?” explains this actually also quite well. you can read it here: http://www.optimizeyourweb.com/index.php/2008/03/22/google-are-you-learning-icelandic/