Translation: A New Instant Answer From Bing
The Microsoft Translator Blog announced that translation is now an instant answer in Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine. Here are some examples: Google added limited translation as a OneBox over a year ago. But it seems like both Yahoo and Ask.com do not have smart answers for translation. Hat tip to LiveSide for spotting this.
Barry Schwartz on June 11, 2009 at 9:47 am | Reading time: 1 minute
The Microsoft Translator Blog announced that translation is now an instant answer in Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine.
Here are some examples:
Google added limited translation as a OneBox over a year ago. But it seems like both Yahoo and Ask.com do not have smart answers for translation.
Hat tip to LiveSide for spotting this.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.