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Google Toolbar 5 Now with "Advanced" Translation Feature
30 June 2009, 8:00 pm

According to an announcement on the Google blog, Google Toolbar users can now instantly translate web pages with a single click.

The toolbar is only available for Internet Explorer and Firefox, and this new feature has apparently only been rolled out for IE as far as we can tell. The functionality is hit and miss, as you'll see in the screenshots below.

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However, on this French site, the language wasn't automatically detected, and the text didn't get translated at all, even though Google said it had done so:



Another reason we're not in love with the translation feature is that it doesn't automatically translate pages once you start navigating around a site. Although the Google blog states, "If you go to another page in the same language, you will continue to see translations rather than have to translate one page at a time," we did not consistently find this to be the case in our own testing. For example, we were surfing Chinese.AOL.com and had to ask Google to translate with each click through to another page on the same domain.

Another feature of the toolbar translation is real-time translation of dynamic content, which we found worked in Google Reader and FriendFeed just fine.



The translations were not perfect but were on par with other results we've seen historically from Google Translate. Overall, for users who still choose Internet Explorer and who navigate a lot of foreign language sites, this might be a good tool.

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Source: ReadWriteWeb

[austrans]

Thanks for sharing. I also agree that by using Google Toolbar 5 with advanced translation feature would re really great to translate website online with great accuracy and correction.