Google has launched a new version of its Toolbar for Firefox that lets you translate any webpage with the click of a button without leaving the page. Google will also add web-site suggestions and sponsored links to the toolbar as you type in any query.
The new toolbar is synced with Firefox version 3.5’s Private Browsing mode so that the tool bar will not record your searchbox history while you are in this mode. It will also turn off PageRank, Web History and Sidewiki.
Last week, Google announced their new web annotation system, Sidewiki, that will be included in the new version of Toolbar for Firefox. Sidewiki allows users to leave a comment on an entire page or a selected piece of text, and share the URL via email, Twitter or Facebook. Users can read and vote comments up or down, which creates a user ranking for each individual that will determine where their comments fall on the Sidewiki. The higher the ranking, the higher comments appear. So now you can make comments on pages that aren’t published in your own language.
Man, I wish we had this king of translation power while I was at high school struggling with french.
So now why would I ever download Chrome?
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I had to turn it off. It kept trying to translate pages that were already in English, claiming that the pages were Russian, Japanese and other more exotic languages.
Many of the pages it couldn’t recognize the language of were actually Google help pages.
It does have a few flaws though, when I was surfing facebook it said “this page is in dutch. do you want Google toolbar to translate it for you?” and the page was definitely in English.
Hope it works better than most translation attempts, which can usually manage the words but not the grammar and thus miss the meaning.
All your bases are belong to us.
The tool may be nice, but the fact that google translation engine cannot properly generate human-readable text in other languages, i.e. Chinese, makes the tool less useful.
Machine translation is a hard topic in computer science, and I don’t think our technology is ready for it yet.
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It would be cool if it could automatically detect the language and automatically translate it without any user interaction… a setting in preferences would do it.
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Google has even something better:
A script you install in the top of your website and that detects if a visitor is coming of one of the selected country/languages and automatically proposes to translate the text into the local language.
http://translat...translate_tools
Readable and understandable translations are being produced in ad few seconds.
We have installed it on 2 sites: http://www.engago.com and http://www.LEADSExplorer.com
Please not it should only work for a few languages: not English, German or French as these web pages already exist.
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The new Google Toolbar is so full of flaws, I cannot believe it was actually released. I thought it was only me who had to struggle with this.
I’m not completely sure but it seems LiveJournal is blocking the toolbar translation. I had a visitor in my stats yesterday blocked by LJ’s robots.txt from using it (I don’t really care since you can still use G’s on-site service to do the same thing).