“Google Translate†Vanishes Language Barrier
It’s great to know that, now webmasters will be able to access any language, thanks to “Google Translate,†the inevitable tool. In an effort to vanish the language barrier that had always existed in the web world, Google has come up with new tool that translates any language of the content.
Below is what the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog has to say about the issue:
“When webmasters put content out on the web it’s there for the world to see.
Unfortunately, most content on the web is only published in a single language, understandable by only a fraction of the world’s population.
In a continued effort to make the world’s information universally accessible, Google Translate has a number of tools for you to automatically translate your content into the languages of the world.
Users may already be translating your webpage using Google Translate, but you can make it even easier by including our “Translate My Page” gadget, available at http://translate.google.com/translate_tools.
The gadget will be rendered in the user’s language, so if they come to your page and can’t understand anything else, they’ll be able to read the gadget, and translate your page into their language.
Sometimes there may be some content on your page that you don’t want us to translate. You can now add class=notranslate to any HTML element to prevent that element from being translated. For example, you may want to do something like:
Email us at <span class=”notranslate”>sales at mydomain dot com</span>
And if you have an entire page that should not be translated, you can add:
<meta name=”google” value=”notranslate”>
to the <head> of your page and we won’t translate any of the content on that page.
Lastly, if you want to do some fancier automatic translation integrated directly into your page, check out the AJAX Language API we launched last March.
With these tools we hope you can more easily make your content available in all the languages we support, including Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.â€
October 16th, 2008 at 12:06 am
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