Using Google Translate to Discover New Knowledge in Wikipedia

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Wikipedia is available in many languages, offering different perspectives and depth of information. For example, the Spanish Wikipedia's article on cats is remarkably different from the English Wikipedia's article. The Italian Wikipedia provides five times more information on Leonardo da Vinci. Good searchers understand the value of exploring multiple resources, including those in different languages.

Dan Russell spent 17 years working at Google, with a significant part of that tenure as a Search Anthropologist: “someone who tries to understand how people search, what kinds of things they seek, and how their tools influence their search process.” Dan is the author of The Joy of Search, which is the focus of our conversation today.

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