Новые языки в Google Translate

В Google Translate добавлены еще пять языков: азербайджанский, армянский, баскский, урду и грузинский. Пока эти языки доступны в альфа-версии. Общее число языков на Google Translate в результате добавления достигло 57.

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Five more languages on translate.google.com

источник: The Official Google Blog, Автор: A Googler, дата: 13.05.10

(Cross-posted from the Google Translate Blog)

At Google, we are always trying to make information more accessible, whether by adding auto-captioning on YouTube and virtual keyboards to search or by providing free translation of text, websites and documents with Google Translate. In 2009, we announced the addition of our first "alpha" language, Persian, on Google Translate. Today, we are excited to add five more alpha languages: Azerbaijani, Armenian, Basque, Urdu and Georgian — bringing the total number of languages on Google Translate to 57.

These languages are available while still in alpha status. You can expect translations to be less fluent than for our other languages, but they should still help you understand the multilingual web. We are working hard to "graduate" these new language out of alpha status, just as we did some time ago with Persian. You can help us improve translation quality as well. If you notice an incorrect translation, we invite you click "Contribute a better translation". If you are a translator, then you can contribute translation memories with the Translator Toolkit. This helps us build better machine translation systems especially for languages that are not well represented on the web.

Collectively, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Georgian and Urdu have roughly 100 million speakers. We hope that these speakers can now more easily access the entire multilingual web in their own language. Try translating these and other languages at translate.google.com. Here are some phrases from the new alpha languages to get you started:

Baietz lehenengoan
میں خوش قسمت محسوس کر رہا ہوں
բախտաւոր եմ զգում
Mən şanslıyam
იღბალს მივენდობი

Posted by Ashish Venugopal, Research Scientist

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Две функции Google Squared в основном поиске

Google представил добавление отдельных функций технологии Squared в результаты основного поиска.

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Understanding the web to find short answers and “something different”

источник: The Official Google Blog, Автор: A Googler, дата: 12.05.10

One year ago today we announced Google Squared in Labs, an early attempt to find and extract structured data from across the web, such as a detailed table of [dog breeds] or [broadway shows]. Since then, our team in New York has steadily worked to improve quality and add new features, such as the ability to sort your data and export it to a file. In the past week, we've introduced two features that bring parts of Squared's technology directly to regular search results. The first provides better answers to fact-finding queries like [independence day of india], and the second is "something different", a special kind of search refinement in our new left-hand panel.

Better answers, with sources
Often people search to find basic facts, such as [catherine zeta-jones date of birth]. Three months ago we began using Squared technology to highlight answers for these types of searches in snippets. Today we're expanding that effort so that when you're looking for this kind of simple fact in search, we give you more accurate answers right at the top of your results, sourced from across the web:


If you click on the new "show sources" link, a box will slide down with websites that corroborate your answer.

The sources list includes the relevant text from each page so you can quickly verify whether the webpages seem reputable and whether our algorithms correctly interpreted the context of the answer. If you see a mistake, please let us know by clicking on the "Feedback" link so we can make it better.

You'll find answers to millions of different fact-seeking searches because the feature relies on an algorithmic understanding of webpages, not a hand-crafted set of special sources. For example:

• At a pub quiz night and need help on the round about India? Quickly find out the [prime minister of india] and the [capital city of india].
• Listening to Abbey Road and forget [when did John Lennon die]? Learn it was December 8, 1980.
• Writing a paper about the American Industrial Revolution? Find out who was the [inventor of the telephone] (Alexander Graham Bell) or [who invented the cotton gin] (Eli Whitney).
• Forget how long ago Dark Knight was released? It was July 18, 2008, according to [dark knight release date]. Want to know when Iron Man 2 came out? May 7, 2010, according to [iron man 2 release date].

Often you're looking for these kinds of quick answers when you're out and about, so we've made sure the feature also works great on mobile browsers, where it can be slow and awkward to dig through multiple webpages to find an answer. Next time you're on a date to see The Nutcracker, discreetly pull out your phone and search for [nutcracker composer] and impress him or her with your deep knowledge of ballet (and Tchaikovsky).

"Something different"
Google Squared technology also helps power one of the new features of our latest enhancement to the search results page: "Something different." Sometimes when you search on Google, you'll see a new section at the bottom of the left-hand panel which contains related search terms. For example, search for [zebra] and you'll see other related searches such as [giraffes], [elephants] and [hippos]:


This can be a useful way to explore topics related to your original search. In the past, you may have seen similar search refinements at the bottom of Google search results pages under the heading "searches related to." These queries are a great way to drill down further into a specific topic, such as [zebra facts] and [zebra pictures]. But we've found that when people are searching for zebras, they often search for other zoo animals as well. So just as Google Squared can put together a table of zoo animals, with "Something different" we automatically find other entities in the same category, such as gazelles and rhinos. This helps for times when you want to browse a broad topic using Google, rather than dig for a specific bit of information. You can learn more about how this works in our Help Center.

In one year, we've come far enough with our experimental Google Squared technology to start using it to help you both formulate your search and find exactly the information you're looking for. While I'm happy with the progress we've made, there's much more to be accomplished in this area — from searches that have multiple answers, like [us supreme court justices], to searches too complex for us to understand today, like [what major did bill clinton's daughter study at stanford?]. We'll continue to look for new ways to apply our deepening understanding of the web to improve your search results. Both new features will be available globally in English (something different is available now, and the improved answers feature should finish rolling out by the end of the week).

Posted by John Provine, Technical Lead

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В Google Translate добавлены языки с речевой поддержкой переводов

В дополнение к введенному ранее звуковому переводу слов на английском, креольском, французском, итальянском, немецком, хинди, испанском, в Google Translate добавлен функционал по преобразованию текста в речь на языках африкаанс, албанском, каталанском, китайском (мандарин), хорватском, чешском, датском, голландском, финском, греческом, венгерском, исландском, индонезийском, латышском, македонском, норвежском, польском , португальском, румынском, русском, сербском, словацком, суахили, шведском, турецком, вьетнамском и валлийском на основе интеграции синтезатора речи eSpeak.

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Giving a voice to more languages on Google Translate

источник: The Official Google Blog, Автор: A Googler, дата: 11.05.10

(Cross-posted from the Google Translate Blog)

One of the popular features of Google Translate is the ability to hear translations spoken out loud ("text-to-speech") by clicking the speaker icon beside some translations, like the one below.

We rolled this feature out for English and Haitian Creole translations a few months ago and added French, Italian, German, Hindi and Spanish a couple of weeks ago. Now we're bringing text-to-speech to even more languages with the open source speech synthesizer, eSpeak.

By integrating eSpeak we're adding text-to-speech functionality for Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese and Welsh.

You may notice that the audio quality of these languages isn't at the same level as the previously released languages. Clear and accurate speech technology is difficult to perfect, but we will continue to improve the performance and number of languages that are supported.

So go ahead and give it a try! Click the on the speaker icon for any of these translations: "airport" in Greek, "lightning" in Chinese or "smile" in Swahili.

Posted by Fergus Henderson, Software Engineer

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Google Docs вместо MS Office

Google предлагает пользоваться бесплатным Google Docs вместо выходящего в ближайшее время из бета-версии проприетарного Microsoft Office 2010.

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Upgrade here

источник: Google Enterprise Blog, Автор: Jeff, дата: 11.05.10

This week Microsoft will take its Office 2010 suite out of beta. If you're considering upgrading Office with Office, we'd encourage you to consider an alternative: upgrading Office with Google Docs. If you choose this path, upgrade means what it's supposed to mean: effortless, affordable, and delivering a remarkable increase in employee productivity. This is a refreshing alternative to the expensive and laborious upgrades to which IT professionals have become accustomed.

Google Docs has been providing rich real-time collaboration to millions of users for nearly four years. It lets employees edit and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in the browser from anywhere in the world. We recently made tremendous strides in improving Google Docs formatting, speed and functionality, and a growing number of companies are now using it as their primary productivity software.

Of course, you probably already own Office 2003 or 2007 (or maybe Office 2000?), and there's no need to uninstall them. Fortunately, Google Docs also makes Office 2003 and 2007 better. For example, you can store any file – including Microsoft Office documents – in Google's cloud and share them in their original format (protected, naturally by Google's synchronous replication across datacenters). Plus, in the coming months, Google will enable real-time collaboration directly in Office 2003 and 2007, as you can see here.

Google Docs represents a real alternative for companies: a chance to get the collaboration features you need today and end the endless cycle of "upgrades". For more information on the choices available to you, check out the summary below. But don't take our word for it – you can try Google Docs and the rest of the Google Apps suite for free. The only thing you have to lose is a server or two.

For further information on Microsoft's offerings and requirements, please reference the Microsoft TechNet articles on SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010.

Posted by Matthew Glotzbach, Google Enterprise Product Management Director

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Google запускает новый интерфейс результатов поиска

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Google запускает новый интерфейс результатов поиска

источник: Google Russia Blog, Автор: Inessa Roman-Pogorzhelskaya, дата: 05.05.10

Автор: Борис Хвостиченко, менеджер по продуктам Google в России

Сегодня вечером мы запускаем новый интерфейс страницы результатов поиска сразу на 37 языках. Это стало возможным благодаря работе большой команды людей из разных частей света. Нам очень приятно отметить, что некоторые из этих людей находятся в России.

Поиск стал проще и гибче:

• Новая поисковая панель слева показывает поисковые инструменты и типы информации, релевантные вашему запросу.
• У вас появились следующие возможности:
• просматривать результаты за определенный промежуток времени, а также хронологию результатов;
• быстро переключаться между различными типами информации (Карты, Новости, Картинки, Видео, Книги и т.д.);
• узнавать связанные и похожие запросы, которые задавали другие пользователи;
• отмечать понравившиеся результаты, чтобы они всегда были под рукой.
• Еще мы подкорректировали интерфейс:
• улучшили отображение описания найденных страниц, включая их предпросмотр;
• удобнее расположили ссылки внизу страницы;
• и внесли еще более сотни небольших улучшений внешнего вида страницы.

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Новый интерфейс поиска Google

Google с сегодняшнего дня изменяет вид страницы поисковой выдачи на 37 языках. Поисковик с прежним дизайном со сворачиваемой левой панелью опций на английском языке пока еще доступен по адресу http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=all.

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A spring metamorphosis — Google’s new look

источник: The Official Google Blog, Автор: A Googler, дата: 05.05.10

Using Google today, you may have noticed that something feels slightly different — the look and feel of our search results have changed! Today's metamorphosis responds to the increasing richness of the web and the increasing power of search — revealing search tools on the left and updating the visual look and feel throughout. While we are constantly rolling out small changes and updates, today's changes showcase the latest evolutions in our search technology, making it easier than ever to find exactly what you're looking for.

The new Google look, with simple left-hand navigation.

What's new and what's changed?
We've added contextually relevant, left-hand navigation to the page. This new side panel highlights the most relevant search tools and refinements for your query. Over the past three years, we've launched Universal Search, the Search Options panel and Google Squared, and it's those three technologies that power the left-hand panel.

Universal Search helps you find the most relevant types of results for your search. The top section of the new left-hand panel builds on Universal Search by suggesting the most relevant genres of results for your query and letting you seamlessly switch to these different types of results. The "Everything" option remains our essential search experience with different types of results integrated into the main results, but now you can also easily switch to just the particular type of results you are looking for.

Our expandable Search Options panel launched last spring brought many rich slice-and-dice tools to search. The new left-hand navigation showcases these tools and enables you to get a different view of your results. Perhaps you'd like to see images from each of the results or just the newest information? These options are all on the left, and our technology will suggest the tools that are most relevant and helpful to your query.

Google Squared (available on Google Labs) helps you find and compare entities. Our "Something different" feature builds on the technology in Google Squared to find other entities that are related to your query, so you can easily explore not only the results for your current query but other related topics.

In addition to the left-hand side changes, we've updated our look and feel in terms of our color palette and our logo. These changes are slight, keeping our page minimalist and whimsical, but make our overall look more modern.

The new design refreshes and streamlines the look, feel and functionality of Google, making it easier to pinpoint what you're looking for. It's powerful, yet simple. Today's changes are the latest in our continuing efforts to evolve and improve Google. We've been testing these changes with users over the past few months, and what we're launching today reflects the feedback we've received.. We want to ensure that the Google you use today is better than the one you used yesterday, and these latest changes open up many possibilities for future features and enhancements.

To hear more about our new design, check out this video:


Our new interface begins rolling out today globally across 37 languages. We are also launching the mobile version concurrently for English interfaces in the United States. Search on!

Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience

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Обновление Google Chrome Beta Channel до версии 5.0.375.29

Бета-версия Google Chrome для операционных систем Windows, Mac и Linux обновлена до 5.0.375.29.
Отдельные ключевые особенности версии:
- новые возможности HTML5: геолокация, кэширование приложений, веб-сокеты, перетаскивание файлов;
- интегрированный плагин Flash Player;
- улучшенная производительность V8;
- расширенные настройки синхронизации;
- флаг NaCl (Native Client);
- включение возможности работы расширений в режиме Incognito (через соответствующую отметку в чекбоксе к расширению на вкладке extensions).

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Beta Channel Update

источник: Google Chrome Releases, Автор: laforge@chromium, дата: 04.05.10

Google Chrome 5.0.375.29 has been released to the Beta channel on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Some key features from this release include:

• HTML5 Features: Geolocation, App Cache, web sockets, file drag-and-drop.
• Integrated Flash Player Plugin
• V8 performance improvements
• Preferences synchronization
• NaCl behind a flag

The changes in Google Chrome 5.0 Beta are explained in more detail on the Google Chrome Blog.

To get on the Beta channel, you can download Google Chrome from

• Windows: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=betachannel
• Mac: http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=mac
• Linux: http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux

If you find issues, please let us know: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry

Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome Team

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