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, Bulga [...]
Filed in: Google: Toolbar, Google: Translate
Google Translate Adds New Meta Tags, Widget
Oct 14, 2008 at 3:22pm ET by Matt McGee
Google has announced several new ways to use and control its Google Translate service, including the support of new HTML tags and attributes that will prevent Google from translating your content.
The "notranslate" meta tag will block an entire page from being translated. It looks like this:
If you only want to keep Google from translating a certain piece of content within a page, the "notranslate" attribute can be added to any HTML element, like this:
On the other hand, if you get a lot of international visitors and want to make it easier for them to translate your content, G [...]
Filed in: Google: Translate
Communication Breakdown? Try Google Talk’s Interpreter
Dec 19, 2007 at 9:00am ET by Barry Schwartz
The Google Talkabout Blog announced the launch of an instant messenger bot that is an interpreter.
An instant messenger bot is a little computer program that accepts instant messages and automatically replies to them. AOL has the AIM Bot program for years, allowing developers to create these bots as they see fit. In any event, Google released a new bot that utilizes Google Translate and acts as your personal interpreter. Google currently has 29 different translation bots, including:
ar2en
bg2en
de2en
de2fr
el2en
en2ar
en2de
en2el
en2es
en2fr
en2it
en2ja
en2ko
en2nl
en2ru
en2zh
es2en
fi2en [...]
Filed in: Google: Gmail, Google: Translate
Google Translate Drops Systran For Home Brewed Translation
Oct 23, 2007 at 8:10am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google Operating System reports that Google Translate has dropped using Systran as the technology used by Google for translations. Google now uses their own home brewed version of translation technology to translate between the 25 languages available.
Yahoo's Babel Fish still uses Systran technology, so if you are in a compare and contrast mood, you can compare the two. Google's technology was created by Google's research group and uses statistical machine translation. Google's approach is a bit different from other approaches.
Google explains they:
feed the computer billions of words o [...]
Filed in: Google: Translate
Dictionary Feature Added To Google Translate
Jun 22, 2007 at 9:32am ET by Barry Schwartz
Garett Rogers reports that Google Translate has added a dictionary feature.
Rather than let you just translate a word from one language to the best guess in another, this tool shows you various meanings, so you can select the right option.
For example, "right" has multiple meanings in English, such as to mean a direction, to affirm something is correct or to mean something someone is entitled to. Translating it into French, some of these meanings are shown:
1. (not left) droit
2. bon
3. (not left) à droite
4. (completely) tout, complètement
5. (correctly) correctement, bien
6. direct [...]
Filed in: Google: Translate
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