Google Translate allows the translation of 53 languages (to date) using statistical analysis of hundreds of billions of words in the Google search database rather than the more traditional linguistic or rule-based approaches.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/technology/09translate.html?ref=technology The claimed advantage is to capture the nuances of language in use which means web pages in everyday language are translated more accurately. Google has provided Google Translate in a number of forms including a webpage that allows inserted text to be translated to another languagehttp://translate.google.com/#, search in another languagehttp://translate.google.com/translate_s?hl=en&layout=1&eotf=1&source=translation_tab&sl=en&tl=en, or adding a website translator to your pageshttp://translate.google.com/translate_tools?hl=en&layout=1&eotf=1&sl=en&tl=en. The latest news and application of Google Translate are found on this page.

The Google Translate page describes the various ways to use Google Translation and provides links to the latest news and developments of this ongoing project. For example, a prototype effort to send snippets of foreign text captured as images via Google Goggles and return the translated text in near real-time is now a full feature of Google Goggles.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/AR2010021603030.html http://gizmodo.com/5532652/google-goggles-gets-text-translation-see-cest-bon

Google Chrome is the latest web browser to incorporate Google Translate by allowing one click translation of the page.http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/brabhsalai-greasain-ilteangach-or.html Your preferred language setting is compared to the language of the page you are viewing and automatically prompts you if translation is desired. Google released a video ad on April 20, 2010 to promote Google Translate (see below).http://mashable.com/2010/04/20/chrome-ads-extensions-translate/

World Cup Team Talk, sponsored by BBC, had participation in Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, English (15%), Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Vietnamese, and Welsh using Google Translate.http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/worldcupteamtalk/

Method 1: Insert text to be translated to another language on the Google Translate website, search in another languagehttp://translate.google.com/translate_s?hl=en&layout=1&eotf=1&source=translation_tab&sl=en&tl=en http://translate.google.com/#

Go to the page on the Google translate website called Translation (http://translate.google.com/#). Enter your text (cut/paste) or paste in a webpage URL. You can also upload a document. Select the "from" language and the "to" language. Then press the button: Translate.

Method 2: Search in a different languagehttp://translate.google.com/translate_s?hl=en&layout=1&eotf=1&source=translation_tab&sl=en&tl=en

Go to the page on the Google translate website called Translated Search (http://translate.google.com/#). Type in your keywords indicating what language you are searching for and your own language. Press the button: Translate and Search.

Method 3: Add a website translator to your website pageshttp://translate.google.com/translate_tools?hl=en&layout=1&eotf=1&sl=en&tl=en.

Go to the page on the Google translate website called Tools and Resources (http://translate.google.com/#). Select the language that you created your website. Then choose whether you want to translate to a specific language or all languages. Copy the code snippet onto your webpage. A button will appear on your website that the reader can click.

• Digital text and Google Translation tools

• OCR-capable images via Google Goggles

Twanslate - tweet translation as a Firefox extensionhttp://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20003059-248.html

Brizzly - Web-based Twitter client including Facebook Connect supporthttp://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10402417-36.html

"One feature I found especially cool: You can tap and drag to highlight a block of text and either look up a word in a dictionary or translate it via Google Translate." Ginny Mies (PC World) reviewing the Droid Incrediblehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041900750.html

Translation by Google Translate of Samsung product announcement of a forthcoming tablet: "Samsung goes beyond the capabilities of Apple's highest-performance pads Tablet PC is released early in August."http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1604161/samsung-readies-s-pad-tablet

Google Translate for Animals is an Android application available on Android World on April 1, 2010.http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/ Google researchers are working with many of the world's top language synthesis teams, and with leaders in the field of animal cognitive linguistics, including senior fellows at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Available only on Android phones, Translate for Animals recognises and transcribes words and phrases that are common to a species such as dogs. Note the date ...

A comparison provided by the New York Times included the following alternatives to Google Translate:http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/09/technology/20100309-translate.html

Yahoo Babel Fish via Systran

Microsoft Bing Translator

TranslatorBar.comhttp://www.practicalecommerce.com/podcasts/episode/1293-Free-Translation-Tools