25. A system for identifying one or more queries related to a given query, the system comprising: a data store comprising a storage medium for storing a searchable query set; a search engine comprising one or more processing elements for receiving a query written according to one or more writing systems of a language with multiple writing systems, and identifying a candidate set of one or more queries in the data store, the candidate set of queries written according to one or more writing systems of the language with multiple writing systems; a conversion component comprising one or more processing elements for converting the received query and the one or more queries in the candidate set into one or more written formats; a similarity component comprising one or more processing elements for calculating a number of common characters in a given candidate query before disagreement with the query received, the similarity component further calculating a number of total common characters between the given candidate query and the query received and calculating a quotient of the frequency with which a selected query from the candidate set follows the received query in one or more query logs and the frequency of the received query in the one or more query logs; and a similarity score component comprising one or more processing elements for calculating a similarity score on the basis of the number of common characters before disagreement, the total number of characters for the one or more queries in the candidate set and the quotient of the frequency with which a selected query from the candidate set follows the received query in one or more query logs and the frequency of the received query in the one or more query logs indicating the similarity of the one or more queries with respect to the received query.
25. A system for identifying one or more queries related to a given query, the system comprising: a data store comprising a storage medium for storing a searchable query set; a search engine comprising one or more processing elements for receiving a query written according to one or more writing systems of a language with multiple writing systems, and identifying a candidate set of one or more queries in the data store, the candidate set of queries written according to one or more writing systems of the language with multiple writing systems; a conversion component comprising one or more processing elements for converting the received query and the one or more queries in the candidate set into one or more written formats; a similarity component comprising one or more processing elements for calculating a number of common characters in a given candidate query before disagreement with the query received, the similarity component further calculating a number of total common characters between the given candidate query and the query received and calculating a quotient of the frequency with which a selected query from the candidate set follows the received query in one or more query logs and the frequency of the received query in the one or more query logs; and a similarity score component comprising one or more processing elements for calculating a similarity score on the basis of the number of common characters before disagreement, the total number of characters for the one or more queries in the candidate set and the quotient of the frequency with which a selected query from the candidate set follows the received query in one or more query logs and the frequency of the received query in the one or more query logs indicating the similarity of the one or more queries with respect to the received query. 26. The system of claim 25 wherein the search engine receives a query written according to one or more Japanese writing systems.