There is a new feature in Google Translate that lets users suggest an alternative for incorrectly translated phrases — likely adding "expert" knowledge to Google's statistical translation model in hopes of making their service better.
The new feature only appears to work with languages labeled as "BETA" on the translation tools page — these languages include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Russian.
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Over the past few years, Google has been pumping out product after product, most of which are still in "Beta" stage at the time they are released. Eric Schmidt admits that Google has been so aggressive in introducing "a blizzard" of new products that "it's confusing to almost everyone."
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is leading an initiative to see fewer products launched, but with more features. The concern is that with so many new offerings, "You'll have to search for our products before you can find them," Brin said.
Could this mean...
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Yahoo opened up its beta mail to everybody. The ad-supported beta mail brings desktop clients to the web, with calendar, rss, mapping, drag & drop and tabbed navigation. This comes out of Yahoo’s 2004 acquisition of early AJAX innovator Oddpost.
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"This week, we have finished inviting everyone who's been patiently on the waiting list, and have reopened registration to the public. If you haven't already, now is the time to sign up for the Writely beta!
By the way, we're still going to be moving to a Google Account sign-in soon, so if you don't have one already it would be great if you could take a few minutes to sign up for a Google Account, using the email address and password that you're using to log into Writely. That way when we do move to Google Account sign-in, you'll be all...
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Google has finally announced full availability of Gmail to Australians, who will no longer need to scrounge an invite from an existing Gmail user.
“Gmail is now generally available in Australia and New Zealand. From today, users in Australia and New Zealand will be able to go to www.gmail.com and create a free account, without an invitation or signing up through Google SMS,” the company said.
“Gmail remains otherwise unchanged—offering over 2.7GB of free space, built-in Google search technology, great spam protection and a fast...
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The 50 most anticipated applications in the webosphere, as measured by the number of bookmarks at del.icio.us for apps which are not publicly released yet. This list will be updated each Sunday.
No VotesEmail this | No Comments | 1 ImagePhoneTopp brings web conferencing to your phone so that you can take a meeting...
