Google has been very active in the machine translation space with new languages and language tools being rolled out at frequent intervals. But Microsoft has been busy too, as it appears, and is not ready to concede this key vertical to Google. The Microsoft Translator (http://www.microsofttranslator.com/) has been updated with new language pairs and now includes Hebrew which did not exist previously. It also presents web pages that were translated in Bing in side-by-side format and allows you to translate the same page into any of the languages offered by the service without reloading.
Microsoft Translator side-by-side view
It is encouraging to see that the major search engine companies are trying hard to make the Internet a global place by making content available in many languages. Of course what is foremost on their minds is maximizing the amount of content delivered to users in order to boost advertising revenues.
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