SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 14, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Google Translate
Google Translate Adds New Meta Tags, Widget
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.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 26, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 18, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 8, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google “Skip Intro” Link Skips You Past Splash Pages, Plus Google Offers Query Translation
Sick of sites that force you to sit through a Flash splash screen? Now Google’s offering a “Skip Intro” link to save you that annoyance. Plus, Google’s also offering to translate your queries into other languages. More on both, below.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 16, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 8, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 24, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Communication Breakdown? Try Google Talk’s Interpreter
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, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 23, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Translate Drops Systran For Home Brewed Translation
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 […]
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Translator
The LiveSide blog points to a blog post which shows Microsoft has launched Windows Live Translator Beta. You can translate from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. It supports up to 500 characters and uses Systran, but can override the Systran source with their own in-house translations.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 22, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Dictionary Feature Added To Google Translate
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.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 24, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Launches ‘Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR)’
As promised at its “Searchology” event last week, Google has launched cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). It’s now been added as a new feature to Google Translate and went live yesterday. As Chris Sherman previously wrote, Google is playing a bit of catch-up with this initiative; Yahoo has been doing this on a more limited basis […]