Google Translate Riched A New Milestone: Automatic Translation Between 1640 Language Pairs
By checking the Google Translate web based service, one will notice the addition of support for seven new languages: Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian, Maltese, and Galician. This update of Google Translate service will permit the automatic translation between 1640 language pairs, corresponding to a total of 41 languages. This figures indicate the possibility of web content translation into the native languages of at least 98% Internet users.
The Google Translate service is one of the first web based translation tools offered for free in case of many of the languages contained in the existing implemented set. The service uses automatic translation mechanisms (machine translation technology), as compared with the state of the art commercial services which perform text translation with the help of various rules, requiring predefined vocabulary and grammar.
Even more, with Translated Search, you can search information on websites having the text content written in a foreign language, because the result will be displayed with the user native language. In this way, the accessibility to various localized news or other information is increased.
If you own a website, its content could be offered for the visitors into their own language with the help of the Google Translate gadget, embeddable into any web page only by pasting a ready-made JavaScript code.
You should know that the quality of automated translations depends on various factors, such as the translation algorithm, because the meaning of the words are influenced by the context in which they are used. But the quality of Google Translate service is more than acceptable and in order to increase your website audience, it is recommended to include the corresponding gadget into an exisiting website which provides valuable content.
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