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Who says Latin’s a dead language?

By On September 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Thanks to Google Translate, the language is alive and ready for copy and pasting.

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Fonts in the cloud: Finding the most multilingual solution

By On September 21, 2010 · 4 Comments

For years, web designers have been restricted to a paltry range of fonts.

It’s not that operating systems don’t support many fonts. They do. It’s just that web sites must work across all kinds of operating systems — and all version of operating systems. So designers and developers tend to focus on the “common [...]

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Embedded text is untranslated text, courtesy of Google

By On July 19, 2010 · 2 Comments

Google Translate is a great tool for translating content on the fly — and on the cheap.

And as Google noted in its blog, Poland’s Ministry of Economy is taking advantage of this translation engine to provide web users with real-time translated content. The Google Translate engine is built right into the header.

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Google, Bing and Babelfish: What’s the best translation engine?

By On May 17, 2010 · 9 Comments

Two months ago I wrote about an effort to evaluate the quality of the three major free machine translation (MT) engines:

Google Translate Bing (Microsoft) Translator Yahoo! Babelfish

Ethan Shen has wrapped up the project, soliciting input from more than 1,000 reviewers. He summed up his findings here.

Here are the findings [...]

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