Lost in Google Translation
August 8th, 2008 2 Comments
Why does Google Translate ask you what language you’d like to translate a web page from? I haven’t a clue what language a foreign page is… which is kind of the point… but the page itself will be in a language, won’t it?
All Google should want to know is what language I want something to be translated to (say, the language I do most of my search queries in would be a good starting point).
Anyone know what language this page is?
August 11th, 2008 at 2:48 pm (#)
It’s very hard to work out what language something is in, with a machine, since so many languages are so similar.
Oh, and the blog is in Hungarian
doug.
August 11th, 2008 at 2:57 pm (#)
Google doesn’t do Hungarian….
And this is the Hungarian Norman Collier filter…
http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.halacsy.com%2Fblog%2F&type=text&text=&from=hun&to=eng