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Google Chrome browser updated to include automatic translation

by Parm Mann on 2 March 2010, 11:37

Tags: Chrome, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)

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Search giant Google has made available a new beta release of its increasingly-popular Chrome web browser.

The release, available to download via Google's beta channel, introduces a number of new features including automatic language translation. Designed to help users "navigate the multilingual web", Chrome's automatic translation functionality will detect when a web page is displayed using a language other than that set as the browser's default. Should that be the case, a toolbar notification will ask if the user would like to switch to a machine-translated version of the page.

Although translation functionality is already available to many browsers via third-party sites or plug-ins, Google's built-in service offers one-click translation between numerous languages using its own Google Translate service.

In addition to its added translation features, the latest Google Chrome beta release also introduces improved privacy controls. A new "Privacy" configuration panel - available via Chrome's options menu - now allows the user to configure privacy settings on a site-by-site basis, enabling the ability to filter cookies and pop ups on trusted websites only.

Google's new features are currently available only via the beta release, but the company adds that Chrome's new translation and privacy functionality will be made available as part of an official stable release "in the coming weeks".

In recent months, Google's Chrome has slowly gained market share at the expense of its rivals. With Microsoft this week rolling out its highly-publicised browser ballot, Google will be hoping its latest beta release helps entice more new users and has kicked off a Chrome advertising campaign in UK newspapers.

A video demonstration of Chrome's automatic translation tool can be viewed below.



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nice, Engrish on the fly!

Neat tool, especially with those Chinese sites that ‘leak’ the next video card or motherboard.