Google In A Dead Language

by sushiesque, concerning the matter of Words

Our Sanskritboy is in grad student hell right now, so I'm reposting this verbatim from Sanskritboy.net—

They really are trying to cover all their bases out there in Google-land. Google has launched a Sanskrit version of their site.

Their translations are cute and intuitive: Internet is āntarajālam, literally "inside-net." And "I'm feeling lucky" is rendered as aho me saubhāgyam- "Hey! Good fortune is mine!" Strangely, some words are roughly transliterated, while others are in devanāgarī.

I'm blown away by how adorable this is. Who would have guessed that in 2005 a major Internet corporation would voluntarily roll out a Sanskrit version of their website?

Update: M. A. O. Mercado gives Google Sanskrit a much-needed facelift.