No one can accuse Google of resting on its laurels. This is one company that continues to be an inspiration for innovation. The company works ceaselessly to develop systems which make our daily lives, much better and efficient. It has been doing exciting work in the field of language translation for quite some time now. The past week, which included the International Translation Day, saw substantial developments in the field of automatic translation with Google announcing three pieces of translation-related developments that would help it provide its Web services in multiple languages.
Google has released a new Website translator gadget in the latest version of the Google Toolbar for Firefox 3.5 that provides automatic in-page translation ability. This gadget would enable developers to render the content of their site in the 51 languages supported by Google Translate. It works very simply - one needs to install the new Google Toolbar - the Website translator gadget detects the default language of the visitor from the browser and matches it with the language of the webpage, if both are same it does not take any further action. However, if the two languages are not matching, a translate button appears on the page by clicking on which, the user can translate the page into his/her preferred language.
Those who own web sites need only to paste a code snippet into their Web page in order to use the Website translator gadget. Overall these features call attention to the seriousness with which Google is developing its automatic translation capabilities.
