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A Few Google Translation Updates…

Friday, December 19th, 2008

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 [...]

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Bad Translations

Friday, December 12th, 2008

In the past weeks I’ve seen a few translation goofs get a fair bit of press around the world and cause more than a little laughter.  While these aren’t on B2B websites, they’re still good reminders of the need to be involved in every step of the translation process and use knowledgeable translators working in [...]

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Good International URLs

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Your search engine friendly website should have search engine friendly URLs.  If your home site is in English, this means having URLs that (ideally) look like this:
www.mysite.com/url/nice.html or like: www.mysite.com/nice-url.html, but not like:
www.mysite.com/url/really/too/long.html and definitely not like:
www.mysite.com/2343459/2343893skjr/gibberish/messy/url/is/uninviting/to/click_on.html.
Even if your URLs are generated in a database, cart, or CMS, you may have some ability to take [...]

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Will a Widget Give You Good International SEO?

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Google Translate has introduced a new widget that can be placed on websites to let visitors translate text content into a language of their choice (assuming it’s one of the 30-odd available). While it might seem like a very convenient and easy way to get your pages translated, let’s take a moment to discuss [...]

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