Google Translation Center

Blogoscoped has a new post about “Google Translation Center”. Here is a short excerpt:

According to the Google explanations on the frontpage and their product overview page, we can see this is meant to be a translation service which offers both volunteers and professional translators… and I suppose at least the professionals will want to get paid.
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More than an all-in-one stop for paid translations as some of the competing services in this field, the Google Translation Center looks like it aims to be a marketplace coordinator and tool provider.

This is a highly recommended read that presents some interesting hypotheses about future developments in translation services.

Blogoscoped -Google Translation Center, a New Human Translations Service in the Making

Related posts:

1. TAUS: What you don’t (want to) know [about Google Translation Toolkit]
2. Google Translate now automatically detects the source language
3. Google Translator Toolkit