Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer With Translation Improvements

Posted by Sierra Monica B. in Internet on 07 1st, 2009 | no responses

In the latest post on Google’s official blog, Jerry Tang and Dick Sites, Software Engineers at Google, have announced new improvements in the free translation service provided via the Internet Explorer web browser.
The new toolbar with advanced translation can translate automatically any foreign language page as you press the Translate button on the Google toolbar.

While in Internet Explorer you don’t need to translate pages manually anymore using the language tools, but wait a few seconds for the page to reload and then read it in English.
As you use the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer the translations are performed automatically into the default language set in the browser. For example, if you are navigating on a Japanese web page the browser knows your language is set to English and translates the page in a matter of seconds, as you press the Translate button in the toolbar.

More than that, the improved Google Translate remembers the language of the pages you visit most often and next time you land on a new page in the same language it is translated automatically, without requiring you to press the button again.
The fastest translations are performed for pages with dynamic content, such as Google Reader.

The blog also informs us that the improved Translate is available in all Toolbar versions and there are 41 languages supported: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Greek, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Thai and Vietnamese.

After downloading the Google Toolbar 6 with the new Translate, Google insists you to read a paragraph highlighting that while using the new Toolbar you are sending browsing information to Google, but personal identification data is governed by the Google Privacy Policy.

I personally use Firefox and am happy to know that Google will introduce the new feature to the Toolbar for Firefox soon, too.