Google Inc.

Jonathan Wald

Aaron Baeten Brown

Ilya Mezheritsky

Techniques include outputting to a developer an offer to opt-in to a translation feature that enables human translators to translate their web page to a target language. In response to receiving a first request to opt-in to the translation feature, the server: generates and stores a web page copy, obtains from the human translators translations of at least a portion of the web page from its source language to the target language, modifies the web page copy based on the obtained translations to obtain a translated web page that is a translated version of the web page, detects a second request for the web page from a computing device associated with the target language, and in response to detecting the second request outputs, to the computing device, the translated web page with additional content relevant to the computing device or a user associated with the computing device.

Techniques for crowd sourcing human translations to provide translated versions of web pages with additional content

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining whether to provide a factual answer to a user's query. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a set of query patterns associated with a particular fact. A subset of natural language query patterns can be identified from the set of query patterns. A likelihood that a query corresponding to at least one of the query patterns from the set of query patterns is a fact-seeking query can be determined based at least in part on comparing a first query count associated with the subset of natural language query patterns with a second query count associated with the set of query patterns. The likelihood can be provided as a signal for ranking search results.

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