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October 15, 2008
Google Translate Adds Widget, Notranslate Code Snippets
Google Translate has released a few updates to help you translate, or not, your pages for your site visitors.
First up is a widget that you can place on your site to offer visitors translation via Google Translate. It's very Google branded, so that may deter some, but here's what it looks like:
Secondly, there are code snippets available if you do NOT want Google to be able to translate your page or certain parts of a page.
class=notranslate is available for any html element. Here's an example:
For an entire page, use meta tags like this:
Available languages include:
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
Related Reading:
Google Translate Adds 11 Languages
Google Translate Goes Live with Human Translators
Google Webmaster Central Updates Include API Settings and Crawl Error Sources
Posted by Nathania Johnson on October 15, 2008 9:06 AM
Comments
Technical Translator September 16, 2009 4:12 AM
Google has done their part in making language translation seriously. We have to thank Google for that, really. However, mechanical translators should be more accurate. And it is not safe to depend on technology alone especially in doing documents. A combination of the expert and technology is better.