For those who heard about Google labs for the first time, Google labs is the place to checkout and test Google’s new ideas (Beta stage). Google labs, now has an Indian version and at present it has two localized product including Indic On-Screen Keyboard iGoogle Gadgets and Google Indic Transliteration. Indian online market is quite hot in the recent times and by moving local , all the players are trying to acquire the large stake of regional language market. An Indian centric Google labs is a good indicator for how Google understands the importance of the market.

Indic On-Screen Keyboard iGoogle Gadget

With this gadget for iGoogle, personalized Google home page, now you can search in 14 Indian languages including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kanada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sinahala, Tamil and Telugu. When this gadget for a particular language is added to the iGoogle, a virtual keyboard will added. This virtual keyboard is designed in such a way that all the letters of a particular language will be obtained within the rectangular box. Thus by selecting the letters and then searching by usual search mechanism will give you the relevant results in the native language. Guruji, another Indian based search engine is already providing such a feature for all major Indian languages.

Google Indic Transliteration:

Google indic transliteration tool allows users to type in Hindi using the normal English (Roman) keyboard. Users can type phonetically equivalent Hindi word in English and Google’s Indic transliteration tool automatically change the word/sentence it into Hindi. Google has recently included such feature in Blogspot, its blogging tool and it received an overwhelming response. Technology behind such a tool is very simple and there are so many such converters are already exists in the cyberspace. But the introduction of such a tool from Google will reach the masses and it will definitely have an impact in the growing content in regional languages. Hope Google will release the transliteration tool for other popular Indian languages also.