Additionally, since the toolkit is returning for a specific crisis, it may be discontinued again when the pandemic is no longer occurring. While parishes, dioceses, and schools may have pages dedicated to COVID-19 protocols at their institutions, most would likely agree their website is not focused on the COVID-19 response. However, their announcement focused on bringing the toolkit back amid the COVID-19 pandemic, stating that non-commercial sites focusing on COVID-19 response may apply for its use. On Google announced the return of its free website translator. E-mail if you require any help with this! I thought the Google translate widget was brought back for non-profit use?

Nevertheless, it's still a good idea to remove the old Google Translate code, as that will help your webpage load, ever so slightly faster. And even people that visited your site a great deal will probably not even notice that it's gone. Should I do anything with the Google Translator Toolkit?Īny area which showed Google Translator will not show anything, so anyone that didn't know it was there will not even notice it is missing.

No, Chrome will prompt the user automatically. When browsing sites in Chrome, users will be prompted to view your site in their native language, as pictured below.:ĭo I need to do anything to make sure my page gets translated? Will people still be able to see my site in their native language? Since Google Chrome is available for free (and other browsers have translation add-ons) it makes a lot of sense to have people just use the browser, as is saves Google a great deal of needless processing, and doesn't depend on a webmaster to install Google Translator for people to read foreign-language websites.

This leverages the user's computer without always contacting the Google servers, thus lightening the load significantly. On the other hand, Google has built into its browser (Google Chrome) the ability to translate pages. There's definitely a cost to making this feature available on every page of your site. Every time Google Translator loads on a webpage, it leverages processing power from Google's servers to start up. This is not explained in the announcement, but it's not hard to see why this makes a lot of sense for Google to do. Why has Google discontinued the Google Translator? You may have received a notice from Google (pictured below) that its very popular Google Translator Toolkit has been discontinued, effective December 4th, 2019.

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