The Google Translator has a new feature: a dictionary to translate words. This complements the existing "translate text" box, but is (apparently) optimized for single-word queries, and it also adds some related phrases to results. At this time translations are available between English and French, German, Italian, Korean and Spanish. Chinese and other languages available in Google"s "translate text" feature are missing here. (Interestingly enough, the English - German dictionary translation is in Beta, Google says, even though a non-Beta version is used in the "translate text" tab; perhaps this is one of Google"s in-house machine tran ...
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Google Blogoscoped>>Publish Date: 6/23/2007 7:01:14 AM
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