I just saw your cool article on how to add a pull-down menu letting people translate the pages of my Web site into any of a dozen different languages (see make your site available in multiple languages) but I would prefer to have tiny little flags for different languages and when someone clicks on the flag, the page is translated into that language. Know what I mean? Can you do that and still use Google...

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I know that it's not optimal, but I want to make the product information pages on my online store available in a bunch of different languages without paying the major bucks to get a professional translator to maintain them. I know that services like Babelfish let you enter a URL and get the contents translated automatically, but is there some way to hook that into a site directly?...

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I've been assigned to convert some of our documentation and marketing collatoral into French for entry into the European market and am thinking that we can save a lot of money by just using a computer-based translation system. They're supposed to be quite good. Before I do, can you explain exactly how machine language translation works and whether it's as good as hiring a native language translator?...

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