similarity between translation and web search

I came to a conclusion that the action of translation is very similar to the logic of web search.

When you try to translate, you have to change the words into intents first, and look for the same words in the different language to fit that intents.

As for the web search, you also start with analyzing the intents of the keyword requested, and search for the documents that might be match to that intents.

The difference within these two is that mostly we translate a sentence, not a word, but web search works with only few words yet. This is because of the difficulty in analyzing the whole sentence. So that might be the reason both translation and web search are currently not to be done well. To put it the other way around, some of the translation technology might be adopted to search service.