Helpful phrases when searching Yahoo/Google.
| English | Japanese | Actual phrase | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hijet Truck | ハイゼットトラック | Good | |
| Kei Truck | 軽トラ | Light Truck | Good |
| Dashcam | ドライブレコーダー | Drive Recorder | Good |
| Electronics Parts Catalog | 電子パーツカタログ | Good | |
| Wiring Diagram Collection | 配線図集 | Good | |
| Service Manual | サービスマニュアル | Good | |
| Repair Manual | 修理書 | Repair Book | Good |
| License Plate | ナンバープレート | Number Plate | Unknown |
| License Plate | 自動車登録番号標 | Vehicle registration number plate | Unknown |
Quality denotes varying quality of the terms. If it's good, it's probably been pulled from a webpage. The other quality is "Word Salad", it might work to turn up search results, but they're probably low quality. It'd be like trying to find something by searching for the terms from an auction-site world-salad product listing, you just get more of those products.
For example, the "Hijet Truck" phrase is right from Daihatsu's product page.
"Drive recorder" came from initially finding "Dashcam" was nonsensical to translate, and then using the term "camera front recording", which turned up not much good. I eventually find a good and proper product from this term, and after looking it up I found it listed as a "Drive Recorder", and that phrase turns up high quality search results.
By taking terms, especially proper ones, and smashing them together, you can get some reasonable quality search results. For example, taking "Hijet Truck" and "Drive Recorder" and smashing them together I get blog posts and videos of people installing these products in their Hijet trucks. Being able to see the product used as well as how people are installing them is extremely useful, and helps prevent breakage and mistakes.