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.

6 Responses to “Google Chrome Webpage Auto-Translation”

  1. 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

  2. Chrome Story

    Mar 19th, 2010

    This is quite annoying for many users .. I had to post an entry on how to disable this feature ;)

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.