You may now search the Web and ask to get foreign language web pages included in search results. Google will translate them on the fly. But you may also stop Google from translating your site.

Google Blogoscoped reports that Google’s cross-language search is up and running.

Google’s translation service has been there for a long time. Enter some text or a URL and Google has (tried to) translate the page for you. Needless to say, the translations themselves have sometimes had a comic slant, but you may at least get an idea on what the page is about.

Foreign language search results

Now Google takes this one step further. You may now search the web in your own language (let’s say English) and at the same time ask Google to include German web pages in the search results.

The result page has two columns: to the right search results in the original language, to the left links to the same pages translated into your own language.

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