Google Labs India has released keyboards that allow searching in several Indic languages, including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Tamil and Telugu, writes Ankit Solanki. It appears that the gadget can only be added to the iGoogle page…and that’s a pity cause it would be great for Indic language blogs to add the search tool. Ditto for the Hindi transliteration tool, a gadget form of the transliteration feature that Google had added to Blogger.

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I tried both the Hindi transliteration gadget and the keyboard on my iGoogle page - it’s far too tedious to type using that keyboard, though for those unfamiliar with English, this is a boon. But actually expecting people to install the keyboard on their iGoogle page is asking for too much - I think Google would be better off adding the keyboard as a default option for local language search: a Hindi keyboard when you visit the Hindi search page, and ditto for other languages…similar to what Raftaar has done.