Mozdev.org

(see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433433 and the linked bugs)

The required url is of the form:
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate_s?q={searchTerms}&sl=en&tl=fr
where sl is the start lang and tl is the translated lang.

I've done one of the 576 possibilities - see: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=google+translated+sea...
other languages should be easy to work out using that as a template and adjusting the name and urls to reflect the desired language.
enter ref 25847 at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/submitos.html

(If what you want is for this to be done simultaneously into French, German, Italian.... then you need to get Google to provide that functionality first - the search plugin can only mimic the web form)

Thanks, interesting.

Yes, I can only seem to get the Google form to do one language at a time, so I guess it might be a case of writing an add on. Although someone might work out how to do it. I'm overloaded with work at the moment so I doubt I could write anything to production point even if I can see how to do it.

DJ Barney

I can't see any way of doing multiple languages with the standard interface.
I'm sure something would be achievable with an add on - prob chaining multiple pages together - but I'm afraid I'm not volunteering ;)

Out of interest, what would you want such a tool for?

There's probably a simple hack using multiple frames, or some javascript.

Why ? Curiosity. I realised that most of the time I'm only searching English sites in the Western world, hardly the across-the-board search that the search box appears to be. I also think it's bad practice. It encourages walls between ideas in different cultures and languages when the real richness of the net can be found in sharing and comparing ideas and knowledge in different cultures.

LOL. Well, you did ask ;)

DJ Barney