For the past two weeks, we’ve talked about international translation for the content on your website. We’ve went over the things to avoid when writing text and things to consider when writing for translation. We discussed your targeted audience and culture and gearing your copywriting towards both. Now it’s time to figure out how to [...]

I’ve been writing a lot about off-site techniques and news lately, so I thought it’d be best to return to on-page factors that can affect your website’s visibility in the search engines. One of the most important is content. I recently wrote about this for the Ecreativeworks newsletter, but it’s worthwhile covering here [...]

Microsoft announced yesterday at MIX09 their own translation widget, Microsoft Translator.  Both a widget you can put on pages and an API to integrate translation into applications (and more) are available.  Currently both are being tested on an invite only basis, but you may be able to register for an invite code to be sent [...]

Google Translate has added Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Galician, Estonian, Albanian, and Maltese to its repertoire.  This means that you can now find out what The Maltese Falcon is in…Hungarian ( máltai sólyom).  The total number of languages now available is 41, which, according to Google, covers “98% of Internet users” and makes 1,640 possible pairs [...]

Google has unveiled yet another tool to help people looking for documents in foreign languages.  For companies that use the enterprise-level Google Search Appliance.  Now, users can find documents in other languages and have them run through Google’s Translate technology.
This now makes it possible to search all of the documents your company has put into [...]