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Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, operable to perform operations including receiving from a user a search query; and receiving an indication of a user preference to apply transliteration in simplifying the query terms of the search query. Alternatively, the operations include receiving from a user a search query of query terms; applying transliteration in simplifying the query terms; and using the simplified query terms to identify synonyms to use in augmenting the search query. Alternatively, the operations include receiving from a user a search query; identifying the user interface language as a small language or not a small language; simplifying each query term to a simplified form; and if the user interface language is a small language, for each original query term that has a simplified form different from the original term, using the original query term as-is and not providing any synonyms for the query term.
