1. An apparatus comprising: a computer connected to the Internet; a translation program residing in a memory of the computer; and a weighted search program residing in the memory of the computer; wherein the translation program converts hybrid and unaccented Pin Yin words to Simplified Chinese characters, Traditional Chinese characters, and accented Pin Yin words; and wherein the weighted search program enables a user to select a plurality of characters to be searched and apply a weight to each of the plurality of characters to be searched, so that a search is performed in accordance with the weight applied to each of the plurality of characters.