1. A system implemented in hardware, comprising: a computer system comprising a processor executing a translation engine that is configured to: receive a search query containing one or more transliterated words; determine a source language corresponding to a particular transliterated word of the one or more transliterated words, wherein the determining the source language is based solely on the particular transliterated word, wherein the determining the source language comprises: determining a weighted score for each one of a plurality of candidate languages, and designating the candidate language with the highest weighted score as the source language; translate the word in the source language to a word in a target language based on the source language; submit the word in the target language to a computer-based search engine; receive search results in the target language, wherein the search results are based on the submitting the word in the target language to the computer-based search engine; translate the search results, received from the Internet search engine, in the target language to search results in the source language; and displaying the search results in the source language.