On August 17, 2009 Internet translation company WorldLingo announced that it was integrating the Language Weaver SMT (Statistical Machine Translation) system into their website, providing free and paid translation solutions using Language Weaver machine translation software. We wrote about this on our blog (see post here) and speculated that WorldLingo needed some new horses after it lost about 60% of its Internet traffic.
If some of you are wondering what the deal has done for WorldLingo, the answer is: plenty. Since the deal, Internet media metrix companies Alexa and Compete.com show a dramatic increase in Internet traffic that began at the time WorldLingo started offering new languages using Language Weaver software. See the charts below; both show the same trend. The obvious conclusion is that people are looking on the Internet for free translation services and that more languages translates into more visitors. Language Weaver, with their wide selection of languages, gave WorldLingo what they needed to start getting back into shape. Traffic on WorldLingo is still way off the numbers they had a few years ago, but the trend should be encouraging to them.
WorldLingo ranking on Alexa
WorldLingo ranking on Compete.com
