Google, Facebook, and The Language Revolution
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We blogged (2 weeks back) about Google Translate now being available in Hindi. Well you can add more languages to that list. 9 more languages are now being available courtesy Google. The newly featured languages include Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
In more language updates, Facebook has also just launched its platform in 3 new languages - Norwegian, Japanese and Polish. Facebook is also working to finish up Chinese as their copycat in China, Xiaonei, recently raised $430 million.
Language is one of the key ingredients for the popularity of a service that is supposed to ‘universally accessible. Google’s services will obviously empower more users (as opposed to Facebook’s translation services) and it’s a welcome move for the dissemination of information.
There is an interesting “Detect Language” feature on Google which helps the user automatically identify the language of the text they’re trying to translate.
Read Jimmy Wales’ thoughts on the importance of translation for Wikipedia. (Jimmy Wales on WATShow)
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Yeah its an Actual best way as u said Languages is one of the key ingredients for the popularity of a service that is supposed to ‘universally accessible.
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Google.co.in offered in: Hindi Bengali Telugu Marathi Tamil
Languages make the person more friendly to access there searches and they are also going on social networking sites orkut , facebook and many more sites.