Google Chrome Webpage Auto-Translation
Posted at 2:37pm EST on 03/19/2010
I just noticed a killer feature as I was using Chrome just now. Automatic webpage translation.
When I went to a webpage that was in French, it offered to automatically translate it into English for me.
This is awesome!
UPDATE: Google has an official post on this product release.
AK Works
Mar 19th, 2010
Yeah this was announced a couple of days ago on Google’s blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/brabhsalai-greasain-ilteangach-or.html
Sweet new feature, for sure.
Now to translate Chinese docs to see what they think of Google vs. China & all the talk about the yuan
Chrome Story
Mar 19th, 2010
This is quite annoying for many users .. I had to post an entry on how to disable this feature ;)
Jonathan Dingman
Mar 22nd, 2010
Thanks! I updated the post with the link to the Google blog.
I for one, find it very useful, so I wouldn’t want to disable it.
çeviri
May 8th, 2010
Google continues to position itself as world’s most innovative internet data organizer with a benchmark of relevancy, speed and simplicity.
Husein
May 11th, 2010
Extremely useful transaction with a fairly smooth user experience. I wish that clicking the “google translate” entry on the transaction’s right click menu would take the user to the actual google translate web page.
Jonathan Dingman
May 11th, 2010
I actually disagree, I like how it translates it right on the page – it gives better context and it’s a better user experience because you stay on the site.
It seems with this product, Google isn’t serving their own interest of sending the user back to a Google property, but actually trying to help the webmaster of the site.