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Web Translation Engine for Facebook users

By Andrew Redfern @ 2nd October 2009 2:48 pm

If you are looking to translate your website into another language, Facebook has developed a free service called “Facebook Connect”. The Social Networking site has developed and used a similar application since January 2008, translating its original content into 65 different languages.
The way it works is that the application asks Facebook users to provide translations of particular site phrases and then collects votes on which translation is most accurate. Results of this a French translated Facebook was produced in 24 hours.
15,000 sites are currently using Facebook Connect. The services allows users to log onto third-party websites with their Facebook accounts which then sends certain information back to Facebook. The main aim of this application is to feed data to Facebook, so it can target the correct ads to you.
Also a new tool, the Connect Wizard, has been designed to ease the addition of Connect to any website.
Facebook is challenging Google Translate, and with this new application Facebook thinks they have the better product by saying “technology doesn’t take into account cultural values, idioms that are hard to translate. In the same way we think reviews are better when they come from friends, translation done by people is significantly better than what you would get otherwise.”
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