Western firms are also keen to acquire local products that are accurately programmed for Arabic, the favoured online
search language for a large chunk of the region's population.
The phone automatically determines whether Bing is supported based on the browser and
search language. This language is derived from the default region format, and can be modified by the user.
In addition, it brings a new simplified
search language for users who prefer iterative searches.
Search Language Search Language Successful search Failed search Total Hebrew 8% 30% 38% English and other languages 59% 3% 62% Total 67% 33% 100% no 42% yes 58% Figure 3.
The software would then browse through the corpus of texts and look for the wanted expression in the
search language while the correspondence would be shown in the target language parallel to the
search language.
Back in 1990, there were just three databases containing 40,000 records accessible via a specific
search language. At that time, the service was mainly used by research specialists who understood the technical aspects of the software.
This extensive research site allows the user to
search language tools, a thesaurus, a word translator, for people, quotations, maps, telephone books, convert currency, view stock quotes, find zip codes, track shipping, and search the Internet.
Searches can be made by author, title, key-word, subject or series and the normal Boolean operators are available for complex searching (curiously the
search language is American, but that is presumably something to do with the software).