2005-10-23

Google translate

Okay, I couldn't resist another quick hack before going to bed. See the babelfish swimming along happily, just below the surface at the top right? He will take his best shot at translating this page to a few other languages if you ask him nicely. (Actually it's probably the Google pigeon farm at work again, behind the scenes -- I'll at least assume that a real babelfish would get closer to something understandable. :-)

And, for some reason, this particular breed seems very happy about exchanging the post date and the "next" link in the page header, when translating to the latin descendant family of languages. ¡¿Qué pasa?!

3 comments:

  1. With my "tiny" motherlanguage I have similar need to bring my weblog attempts to wide world... You have made this quick and nice babelfish hack...Please, can you write a simple howto instal it? - I am an old times grandpa from cz.

    I have just succeeded to install your Delicious script. It seems working well, really easy tagging. And another great thing for multilingual web.

    Thank you, wishing all the best.

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  2. i need a translate bit in my blog as well.. can you explain how to use it in blogger beta? this one is the cleanest so far.. thanks

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  3. I'm afraid it is a lot more work writing something for others to use than just setting up something like this for yourself, so it will most likely not happen anytime soon. If or when I make the beta switch on this blog, it's rather likely it will happen as a separately installable widget of some sort, though. Just don't hold your breath. :-)

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Limited HTML (such as <b>, <i>, <a>) is supported. (All comments are moderated by me amd rel=nofollow gets added to links -- to deter and weed out monetized spam.)

I would prefer not to have to do this as much as you do. Comments straying too far off the post topic often lost due to attention dilution.

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