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Translation Technology Can Open Your Eyes to a Global Social Web – The Steve Rubel Lifestream

As more of us around the world join the web, a lot content is going to start to be produced in non-English languages. This hasn’t been a factor for a lot of us, but I suspect it will as we begin to discover content-rich resources and individuals we want to interact with.

Case in point. Recently I started reading a German blog that covers technology. It has a lot rich content, like for example the latest build of a portable version of Google Chrome – but it’s all in German.

via Translation Technology Can Open Your Eyes to a Global Social Web – The Steve Rubel Lifestream.

Tags: Google Reader, languages, Steve Rubel, translation

Official Google Blog: Google Translate now speaks 51 languages

We spend a lot of time thinking about how information travels around the globe. After all, there are Googlers living and working in dozens of countries — and we’re pretty sure our products are used in many more. So we’re familiar with the need to translate information across borders, and we’ve been working hard to build the technology to enable you to do just that. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve added nine new languages to Google Translate: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish. That means that Google Translate now supports 51 languages and 2550 language pairs — including all 23 official EU languages.

via Official Google Blog: Google Translate now speaks 51 languages.

Tags: Google, Google Docs, Google Translate, information, languages, localize, translation

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Docs: now with translation

To make sharing content easier, Google just added the ability to translate documents into Google Docs

via Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Docs: now with translation.

Tags: Google, Google Docs, languages, localize, sharing, translation