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I recently joined the MyBlogLog community and have been getting a lot of exposure there. I have noticed that many of my viewers have write in French so yesterday I decided to add a quick link to my page to let people translate my site into thier language of choice.

I reviewed many translation service sites and concluded Google was the best and easiest to navigate. Some did have good features and nice looking interfaces but inevitably there was some glitch or another that got me caught up trying to troubleshoot instead of just reading the content in the first place.

You can check out the sites I visited and make your own choice:
Babel Fish - simple + good, no frills
Applied Language - widget failed
iTools - broke my layout
Systransoft - I've got scripting turned off...
WorldLingo - Will translate for a cost.
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Google Translation - currently not good
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Now that the widget is installed on this website (simply a nice graphic I created and a hyperlink) - I tested it out and while looking at the translation from English to Russian BETA page, I moused over one of my links and a text box flew open for me to view the original text. Neat I think.

Since I am not surfing from another land - I wonder if this tool is also functioning in other languages or have I uncovered a google test?

Check out the screenshot:

and have fun translating your own text!

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