Google has released its AJAX Language API which will let developers build translation capabilities in their applications and web pages.  The Language API extends the Google Translate service to the outside developers and can translate text in 13 languages and 29 translation pairs on the fly.

I find translation capabilities for web web to be very useful as there is a lot of content on the web which is published in languages other than English.  As a blogger, I am always on the look out for good reading material and language barrier always prevent me from reading the content.  Moreover translation into local languages makes the web more accessible to users who are not well verse with English and want to read the content in their own language.  The ability to translate text into different languages will make the web to be a common place for all to share and discover content.

Google still needs to add a lot of languages to realize the full potential of this service and make it useful for the developers and Internet users.

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