My friend and I were both reading the same paper the other day, except he was reading it on his ipad and I was reading the paper version. Comparing the two, you have to admit that you could get an entirely different picture. Is this what they mean by personalisation? Some of you will have noticed that I have put the Google translation service on my blog. A couple of years ago I tried Babblefish. While the results were hilarious, they were so bad at conveying the meaning of the words that I took it off again. Now that there are so many international readers, only about 6-8 countries tonight, but often more, I thought I should give it another try. After all, technology moves so swiftly these days. Well I just tested the German - the only language I could pass any judgement on, and guess what? It's still almost as bad, but it does translate keywords. If you also happen to speak another language, I'd be very pleased to find out how it compares in the other languages. I promise...
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