Now that the Web is more worldwide than ever, the number of non-native English speakers going online has ballooned, and yet online content in English still dominates. For these users, free translation services mean that an entire world of information can now actually be at their fingertips. We're doing something to help them out.
Translation now fully powered by the Microsoft Translator technology is available through Live Search, as well as IE8, the Windows Live Toolbar, and even a translation bot for Windows Live Messenger.
For example, to translate this search result, click "Translate this page" at the end of the result description:
You'll see the page in a bilingual view, with the original page on the left, and the translated page on the right.
Here's how the Messenger bot does translations for you. Just add mtbot@hotmail.com to your contacts and start chatting away. You can have one-on-one conversations with the bot, or you can invite a friend and chat in different languages with the bot translating for you.
Here are the languages we support today:
We'll roll out more languages over the next several months.
To learn from Microsoft Research about how it works, check out Machine Translation. To keep up with new features, check out the Microsoft Translator team blog. And finally, to try out the service, go to Translator.
Or just click the Translate this page in your search results. However you use it, after you try it out let us know what you think!
Lane Rau, Marketing Manager, Microsoft Research Machine Translation team
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Are you guys serious? Try this.
Go to live.com and enter this search:
how to make money with live search
Now go to live.com and enter this search:
how to make money with google search
Microsoft should at least be able to dominate search across its own properties, products and services!!!
I did the 2 searches and everything was similar... coming back to the topic, all automatic translators have problems to translate a phrase.
Still doesn't work any better then, any other computer translator, may even be worse.
Thank you very much for this translator. Very helpful!
Thanks for the translator, but I don't see a really big difference between this translator and the others.
+++ mtbot is great!. It provides a quick way to learn new languages, as it provides a virtual friend!
- The quality of translation is however same as with other existing translation tools.
Did you know that Microsoft Translator is part of Live Search? For example, to translate this search
