I was looking through the visits to my blog this morning and discovered something really cool. Sitemeter shows you the visits to your website and you can click to see the page that brought them there - the google, yahoo, bing search or whatever.
Well I clicked on one of the links to see the referring site and what did I see but my blog - in Spanish!!
It's yet another nifty Google application - Google Translate. Someone in Spain was reading my blog in Spanish via Google Translate. How cool is that?
Enter a url - or text - and with a click of the button Google translates into the language of your choice - over 40 of them - from Albanian to Vietnamese. It's amazing! And fun - I couldn't help but play around and check out how my site looked in half a dozen languages. If you hover your mouse over the translated text it will show the original English. Very cool.
And of course it's amazingly useful too. When I think of all the times over the years when I needed to translate a document - score yet another one for the web and for Google.
And if you're working with international clients or clients whose first language isn't English this is a great option to make your blog more useful for them.
I've still got to think about how I might use this on my home page - perhaps a link to the application encouraging people to translate the page into their language. Are any of you making use of this?
Just for fun - here's my blog in Italian - at least mostly in Italian - it misses a few words here and there:
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