Facebook will extend the translation component to 15,000 websites

Intermediary transaction http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/6858.html ">seo diagnose Taobao guest cloud host technology Hall

According to foreign media reports, Facebook will extend its translation module to 15,000 Web sites and applications using Connect services in Thursday. Facebook users can log on to these sites with their username and password, sending the translated site information back to the Facebook site.

In the January 2008, Facebook had only one language of English. At the time, the company launched a new translation component to help users translate text from their websites into their own languages. As a result, Facebook now has 65 languages and most of its users are from overseas.

The translation component requests the user to submit a possible translation of the phrase and then lets the user vote to determine which translation is most accurate. So for example, a tourist website in a country can use this component to seek translation help, and then when Facebook users log in, they can see the site in their own language. This component is free for developers, but Facebook hopes to improve the usage of connect services through this translation project.

Facebook's "People-oriented" translation and Google translation services are significantly different, Google translation is the use of technology to automatically translate Web sites and text, so 8630.html "> Sometimes there will be ironic translation." (Of course, Facebook has to translate a small number of words.) )

"Other companies want to use technology to solve translation problems, so it's hard to be completely accurate," said Ethan Beard, Facebook's platform director, Issan Burde. Technology cannot take into account cultural connotations and phrases that are difficult to translate. So we 211.html "> feel that relying on the user may be a good idea, with the help of the user to translate is obviously better than other means." ”