Google Launches Language Translation API
General translation
The API covers 13 languages and can be used for translating blocks of text in Web pages into multiple languages.
March 21, 2008
By Antone Gonsalves
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has introduced tools for translating blocks of text in Web pages into multiple languages.
The language application programming interface can also identify a particular language before translation. The API makes use of the Web 2.0 technology Ajax and covers 13 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The API also supports 29 translation pairs.