A couple of days ago, Google has launched the Google Translator Toolkit, a set of tools. Unlike Google Translate (which is machine-based,) this set of tools including translation search, bilingual dictionaries and ratings enables users to edit or improve upon the machine-translated output.

For instance, if you are an Arabic-speaking reader and you want to translate a Wikipedia article into Arabic, you just need to load the article into the Translator Toolkit, correct the automatic translation and click the publish button. By using the Toolkit, you can translate and publish the article faster and better into Arabic or any other language that you want.

Recently, Google introduced Page Speed, a Firefox Add-on that comes with Firebug integration in its web community. Page Speed is a tool that helps improve and enhance the performance of web pages, without any external change.

The tool is a great deal of help for webmasters and developers to evaluate the performance of their web pages. Webmasters get a set of scores for each page and suggestions on how to improve its speed and performance when they run Page Speed on their pages. Page Speed performs several tests on a site’s web server configuration and front-end code.

Of late, Google has added a new feature to its Google Friend Connect – New Recommendation Gadgets. The new feature allows publishers that use Google Friend Connect to know which parts of their websites their visitors, like best.

Publishers can create the gadgets on Google Friend Connect’s site and then embed the code into their own sites. After the gadget is embedded, visitors can recommend the content they like, be it a whole page, articles, photos or any other content by clicking a “recommend it” button that accompanies any piece of content on the site.

A few days ago, Google released Google Search Options, a collection of tools that enable users to refine their results and generate different views in order to find what you need faster and easier.