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3rd July 2007 - Link Blog

Google Translate (beta). Google’s beta translator based on statistical analysis of things like the United Nations corpus. I have no idea how long this has been available; it isn’t linked from their homepage.

Posted 3rd July 2007 at 4:43 pm

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