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Google announced the release of a new tool for webmasters: Google AJAX Language API. With only Javascript, it can detect and translate blocks of text within web pages. It uses the Web 2.0 technology, and the supported languages are: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The API supports 29 translation pairs.

For an easy integration, Google offers some examples of using the Language Translation API. Though automated translations are not as good as human translations, it became very often that websites offer their visitors the possibility of reading the content in the other languages. Google said that the new API will be improved in the future, so stay tuned