February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h
English
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Language Tools
While you shouldn’t rely on Google’s language tools to do 100% accurate translations of web pages, they can help you in your searches.
In the early days of the Web, it seemed like most web pages were in English. But as more and more countries have come online, materials have become available in a variety of languages—including languages that don’t originate with a particular country (such as Esperanto and Klingon).
Google offers several language tools, including one for translation and one for Google’s interface. The interface option is much more extensive than the translation option, but the translation has a lot to offer.
Getting to the Language Tools
The language tools are available by clicking “Language Tools” on the front page or by going to http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en.
The first tool allows you to search for materials from a certain country and/or in a certain language. This is an excellent way to narrow your searches; searching for French pages from Japan gives you far fewer results than searching for French pages from France. You can narrow the search further by searching for a slang word in another language. For example, search for the English slang word “bonce” on French pages from Japan.
The second tool on this page allows you to translate either a block of text or an entire web page from one language to another. Most of the translations are to and from English.
Machine translation is not nearly as good as human translation, so don’t rely on ...
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