Add Google’s translation plug in to your website

Now you can polish up Google’s translation of your website

by Google,
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(Cross-posted on the Google Translate Blog)

Since we first launched the Website Translator plugin back in September 2009, more than a million websites have added the plugin. While we’ve kept improving our machine translation system since then, we may not reach perfection until someone invents full-blown Artificial Intelligence. In other words, you’ll still sometimes run into translations we didn’t get quite right.

So today, we’re launching a new experimental feature (in beta) that lets you customize and improve the way the Website Translator translates your site. Once you add the customization meta tag to a webpage, visitors will see your customized translations whenever they translate the page, even when they use the translation feature in Chrome and Google Toolbar. They’ll also now be able to ‘suggest a better translation’ when they notice a translation that’s not quite right, and later you can accept and use that suggestion on your site.

To get started: Add the Website Translator plugin and customization meta tag to your website Then translate a page into one of 60+ languages using the Website Translator To tweak a translation: Hover over a translated sentence to display the original text Click on ‘Contribute a better translation’ And finally, click on a phrase to choose an automatic alternative translation -- or just double-click to edit the translation directly. For example, if you’re translating your site into Spanish, and you want to translate Cat not to gato but to Cat, you can tweak it as follows: