New Google "communication tool"...?

[Diatribe]

Now how cool would this be?

Especially the IM part or the browser part is incredible. Time to buy some Google stock...

 

[MacRohde]

Just amazing. No other way to put it.

 

[gwuMACaddict]

pretty wild... they really manage to stay at the forefront of needed technology

 

[wordmunger]

Wow. I wrote a paper on the state of machine translation a couple years back and I can assure you, this is light years ahead. I do wonder what will happen when the translator comes across a phrase it hasn't seen. Will we get the "your search did not return any documents" screen?

 

[edesignuk]

Sounds absolutely incredible, I certainly wouldn’t put it past them to do this, and to do it very well.

 

[mad jew]

My Grandfather once called Google, "the magical fairies of the internet". This is amazing.







The translation part, not the fairies analogy.

 

[MacRohde]

My Grandfather once called Google, "the magical fairies of the internet". This is amazing.







The translation part, not the fairies analogy.

Very true. As some IT/tech journalist (can't remember who) said in a blog: "the two wildcards in the computer world these years are Google and Apple" (paraphrased).
They just surprise us time after time.

 

[dubbz]

Especially the IM part or the browser part is incredible. Time to buy some Google stock...

That sounds very cool indeed. It's about time we get something better than Babelfish. It's served well, but sometimes those translations are awfully bad, in a Comedy Gold way

Google already have a Jabber server running, so they're partly there (although I'm sure it's mostly for in-house use at the moment).