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Crowd-Sourcing Translations

Posted on 01. Oct, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

The monopoly of English in the Internet is long time gone. The Internet penetration in non-English speaking countries is through the roof, and tools to help webmasters and site owners go local are spreading very quickly.

Today Google announced the introduction of a new translation widget that, on the fly, displays the content in the visitor preferred tongue. It is a no-brainer to install it, a simple snippet of code that you can put anywhere on your site. The quality of the translations is not the highest, nonetheless this is a free and  quick way to get your site, or a rough idea of it, spread in roughly 50 languages.

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