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Google Search By Voice Learns Chinese (In Limited Fashion)

Many products are initially available in English, and then branch out into languages like French, Italian, German, and Spanish.  (There's even an acronym, FIGS.)  But Google Search by voice broke with tradition - and started to make its way into a huge market - by moving straight from English to Mandarin Chinese today.

Google Shows Off 2 New Toolbar Labs

Google has introduced two new Google Toolbar Labs features. There is one with "My Location," and a simplified Chinese Toolbar. "One of the best things about working on the Google Toolbar team is that when someone says 'Wouldn't it be great if Toolbar could...,' our answer is usually 'Yes! Let's build it!"' And then it's just a question of when," the Toolbar Product Team says.