Breaking down language barriers in search is a goal for Google, and they just launched a new translation search page to take, hopefully, a giant step in that direction. The page allows you to enter your search phrase, the language you speak and the language that you want to find results in.
As you know, I am a big Serebro fan and they are 100% homegrown Russian girls. So let's put this baby to the test. Now I know that Google's Russian translation machine is in Beta, but hey, they have it listed in the drop down menu. Right.
My first crack at this was to see if it can find the MTV Russia page where I saw some kind of online chat session between MTV and the girl trio. So I enter in "serebro MTV chat", enter. Ah, results -- two columns of them. One for the original language and the other for the translated page.
Well MTV is at the top, but it lands on the home page at MTV Russia and it does not look any different from the original. Sigh. I can see the link for Serebro though. Don't need to understand Russian if it is written in images! And if there is one language I can read, that is Serebro.
Interestingly enough, some of the other results were about unclothed celebs and live internet, something or other. And here I thought the US was the pRoN capital of the world. Boy was I mistaken, Russia has some goods on us there. And some mighty fine goods indeed.
Something seems to be broken on the new search page. If you were to use the ol' tried and true Translate Text box on the original Google Translate page, the translation is not too bad. Even for Russian. I was able to piece together parts of the conversation between the participants. Albeit, it is a tedious one. I just don't understand why this is not wired into the new page correctly.
Anyways, I just broke the tip on the end of my scissors and almost out of school paste. Probably should get up to Walmart before the storm rolls in tonight.
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As you know, I am a big Serebro fan and they are 100% homegrown Russian girls. So let's put this baby to the test. Now I know that Google's Russian translation machine is in Beta, but hey, they have it listed in the drop down menu. Right.
My first crack at this was to see if it can find the MTV Russia page where I saw some kind of online chat session between MTV and the girl trio. So I enter in "serebro MTV chat", enter. Ah, results -- two columns of them. One for the original language and the other for the translated page.
Well MTV is at the top, but it lands on the home page at MTV Russia and it does not look any different from the original. Sigh. I can see the link for Serebro though. Don't need to understand Russian if it is written in images! And if there is one language I can read, that is Serebro.
Interestingly enough, some of the other results were about unclothed celebs and live internet, something or other. And here I thought the US was the pRoN capital of the world. Boy was I mistaken, Russia has some goods on us there. And some mighty fine goods indeed.
Something seems to be broken on the new search page. If you were to use the ol' tried and true Translate Text box on the original Google Translate page, the translation is not too bad. Even for Russian. I was able to piece together parts of the conversation between the participants. Albeit, it is a tedious one. I just don't understand why this is not wired into the new page correctly.
Anyways, I just broke the tip on the end of my scissors and almost out of school paste. Probably should get up to Walmart before the storm rolls in tonight.
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Well, since I mentioned Serebro, who are Russian and beautiful (for being women anyway) and guess I left the door open for that type of comment.
ReplyDeleteCarry on!
Try Google translate search. It's much more improved since your original blog post.
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