Google has added instant machine translation and new privacy features to the Google Chrome Web browser, as Chrome's growth has reached 5.6 percent through January, according to Net Applications. The new polyglot feature recognizes when the language of a Web page a user is viewing is different from his preferred language setting and displays a prompt asking if the user would like the page translated via Google Translate. Google also added a new Privacy section in Chrome's Options dialog that lets users control how browser cookies, images, JavaScript, plug-ins and pop-ups are handled for each Website users access.
Google has
added instant machine translation and new
privacy features to the Google Chrome Web browser, both moves that could
accelerate adoption of the application that has been steadily gaining market
share in the last few months.
Launched to beta March 1, the new polyglot feature recognizes
when the language of a Web page a user is viewing is different from his
preferred language setting and displays a prompt asking if the user would like
the page translated via Google Translate.
Because this tool leverages the
existing Translate technology, this is all done on the fly, without plug-ins or
browser extensions.
Google Chrome engineer Jay Civelli demonstrated how the
translation tool works in this
video here.
Translate is a work in progress, so not all of the
translations will be clean, crisp and accurate. But as with everything else
Google does, Translate is an iterative technology that will Google will advance
over time.
The Chrome team also added a new Privacy section in
Chrome's Options dialog that lets users control how browser cookies,
images, JavaScript, plug-ins, and pop-ups are handled for each Web site users access
with Chrome.
This tool joins Chrome's incognito mode tool, which lets
users mask the digital footprints normally left on their computers as they surf
the Web. Check out all of Chrome's privacy features in this
video here.
Chrome users in Google's Chrome beta channel will receive
the new machine translation and privacy features automatically, with those on
the stable channel seeing the new tools in the coming weeks.
The new Chrome features come as Net Applications found
Chrome grew from
5.2 percent in January to
5.6 percent in February.
Chrome began seeing great pickup after December 8, when
Google
launched beta versions of Chrome for Mac
and Linux, as well as
Chrome Extensions.
Adding new translation and privacy features won't hurt
either as Google, which
passed Apple's Safari in December, sets
its sights on Mozilla Firefox, which fell from 24.4 percent to 24.2 percent and
Microsoft Internet Explorer, which slipped from 62.1 percent to 61.6 percent.
Read more about Chrome's growth on
TechMeme here.
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