Google Toolbar For IE Adds “Advanced” Translation

Jul 1, 2009 at 8:52am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Google Blog announced the latest version of the Google Toolbar for IE (Internet Explorer) has new “advanced translation” capabilities. The translation features include:

Automatic detection of languages other than your default language
One click translation
Client side (does not communicate with Google) language detection
Automatic language translation on page clicks
Real-time translation for dynamic content
Auto translation feature (bypass click for translation) for frequent sites you visit

There are 41 different languages currently supported, including: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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