Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Google Translate: One More Way It Now is Easier to Create a Global Business

One frequently hears it said that the costs of  starting a new company , especially an Internet-related company, have dropped by an order of magnitude or two since about 2000. A fledgling software company that might once have required a $4 million investment can now have a commercial version built for $1 million.

Google Translate is one of those sorts of advances. By using Google Translate, a small business can sell to markets supporting scores of additional languages. So a site might be authored in English, but still be usable by speakers of other languages. 

Google Translate now supports 71 languages.  Khmer is one of the latest languages to be supported.


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