Re: TECH: Language Detection

On 7/7/06, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
> From: "Gary Shannon" <fiziwig@...>
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 9:10 AM
>
> > Just for fun I just now tried to Google "siku mimi
> > nyumba" and every hit was, indeed, in Swahili. And if
> > you google "der ihr uns" virtually every page that
> > pops up is in German, or has German text on the page.
>
> It should be even enough to google for "ang mga" to find
> pages in Tagalog ...
I've seen people give estimates of the number of Esperanto pages on
the web based on searches for "+la +kaj".

And when looking for Maltese words in context, adding "hi" or "hu" as
a second search phrase makes it more likely, in my experience, for the
result to contain more Maltese pages than not. (Though occasionally,
depending on the spelling of the other search phrase, I might get
pages of romanised Arabic, too.)

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>