This week Google launched a beta version of it's ‘cross-language information retrieval’ feature.The translation tool that enables people to search the Internet in any of a dozen languages and have the results converted into their chosen tongue and is online at http://translate.google.com/translate_s .
Google was working on such a tool for a long time and even tough the results aren’t perfect the information you seek is definitely there.

The new software translates queries to perform multi-lingual searches of the Internet and then converts the results to a searcher's language.

The languages included in the service are French, Arabic, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and traditional and simplified Chinese.

The service is to eventually be expanded to include other languages.
The company is glad to announce the arrival of a new cross-language search feature that allows users across the world to find and view search results on foreign language web pages in their own native language.