FlickrBabel.com – Search Flickr Quicker

Sometimes, when you’re searching through Flickr, it’s better to search in multiple languages in order to get more results. Since Flickr is a site whose popularity has spread throughout the world, millions of users upload picture titles and tags in their native tongue. If you’re like me, and you slept your way through high school French, then you should check out Flickrbabel.com. This site will allow you to insert a search query for Flickr, and it will search for you in multiple languages. This greatly broadens the scope of results you’ll get. For instance, search for the word “car”, and the site will search for it in many different languages, allowing you to see pictures of a car someone form Turkey might have uploaded, which you might otherwise not have been able to find. A simpler way to look at it is as a mash-up of Flickr search and Google’s translation services.

“FlickrBabel, a service to help in multimedia information retrieval, first using Flickr.”

The idea is very good. By allowing to see more results, the site makes Flickr more useful and a better way for photographers to show their work.

When will more languages be added? Can this be applied to other search engines?