Google Language Tools Make Browsing Easier
The link is on Google’s home page www.google.com and is easily missed if you aren’t looking for it. I clicked on it one day and it’s proved an invaluable tool ever since.
Click the link and in traditional Google style there are just a few choices, which makes things easy for us. Google allows you to translate a block of text or a whole web page using 9 different languages. In this example we want to translate a whole page. So if you want to translate http://web.utanet.at/brenne55/tutorial/pktt.htm which is a German page, you would copy the URL and enter it into the Translate a web page field, choose German To English and click Translate. Simple isn’t it?
What you get back is never really a perfect translation, but I find that it gives a pretty good approximation and you get a better feel for what’s being said on the page as opposed to just following along with the pictures. The results can offer some interesting reading, that’s for sure.
One last fun thing you can do with the Google Language Tools is change the user interface languages. If you scroll down the page you will see a bunch of different options including strange choices like: Bork, Bork, Bork, Elmer Fudd, Hacker, Pig Latin, and Yiddish. For an added bonus be sure to change the Google interface to something fun next time you use your buddy’s computer.
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Now, if you can only get paid for your knowledge…….
See you next year.
Dad
P.S. The Google language tools are better than those at http://www.babelfish.com/
i was browsing the net and god knows how i got to this page, however that was a good tip! i changed mine to German and it is really cool! anyway, take care
Johny
This is a great feature that Google offers. I have to say that I use it for my spanish classes ti help figure out the text that i haven’t learned yet while doing research for various projects.
Google lanhuage tool is a very use full specialy when your browsing non english sites, so you can convert it to wot ever the language you want and understand wot it says. This tool is really good for online business as well specialy if you kknow’s how to use it properly
The qualiy is geting better, but did anyone noticed the saying around the web about the functions of googlenotifier.exe which functions is included in the toolbar and in many programs ?