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Reach_Out_To_Touch_Billions
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REACH OUT AND TOUCH BILLIONS
Have you heard of 'Babel Fish'?
It's a service provided by Alta Vista search engine people to
translate every page you put 'Babel Fish' code, and up comes a a
new language.
Your page may be written in English, but people across Spain and
Latin America can translate your web page into Spanish. Likewise
if your web page is written in Spanish, German, French, Chinese,
Japanese, or Korean, people can have an instant translation into
English, or another language they are comfortable with.
I have put 'Babel Fish' code onto every page on my site at:-
http://www.ebook-sales.com and I can see from the stats on the
server that people are clicking on 'Babel Fish' to have a
translation. This I feel, widens my audience out there in
cyberspace. The 'hit counter' has substantially risen, I have
people bookmarking my site, because I see they don't all come in
the 'front door' to the site, they come in to certain pages that
interests them.
Every new page I put on my site, and I update fairly often, I
make sure the 'Babel Fish' code is at the top of the html on
that page.
The technology is certainly improving, I remember science-
fiction movies when I was young had computers to instantly
translate into any language, but the technology has only just
arrived in reality and can be used widely on the web.
In previous articles I wrote about the Chinese market about to
be opened up, for there are more people in China logging on to
the internet every day. There are businesspeople in the west who
are eyeing this market at the moment. To those people I would
ask them to seek out some of my previous articles on
Ideamarketers.com and take into account what I say there.
It's also no good to the vast population of China, who do not
speak any other language, to see sites always put up in English.
Some attempt must be made to have parallel pages with Chinese
throughout, or resort to the excellent technology that is 'Babel
Fish', and as I know the corporate world moves grindingly
slowly, the adept and astute entrepreneur could steal a march on
their bigger, slower cousins.
Does your company pay a translation service to be able to send
documents abroard?
Translation services are costly and slow. If you put your
documents on a server in html and insert the code for 'Babel
Fish' at the top of every page, you can send an email giving the
address of the pages, you can also send a password to get into
these pages, no one else will be able to view them, and this
will avoid translation costs and slow turnaround of such a
service.
Likewise technical manuals could be scanned into html pages,
code for 'Babel Fish' inserted at the top of every page, upload
the manual to a server, password protect, and your company, to
people abroard, will look like something out of 'Startrek', and
they will be confident in doing more business with you in the
future.
There is only one thing that I have found personally, as I am an
author and only write in English, I find if I compile an ebook
to an .exe file, as most ebook-compilers do, the 'Babel Fish'
code I already placed at the top of every html page before
compilation, does not work. The pages are compiled into
gibberish anyway, and I suppose the code for 'Babel Fish' the
same.
It would be a great leap forward to me and other writers
producing ebooks, to have a compiler that can have built-in
translation facility into several languages.
If anyone can do this excellent programming idea, I would be the
first to buy such a compiler. There lies the nub of a great
business invention almost akin to the start of a great software
company, like Microsoft.
Why not take this idea further, all movies could be made with
built-in translation, all t.v. shows made with translation, to
sell these shows abroard.
What else can you think of?
I remember an old saying:- "Whatever the mind of man can
conceive, it can achieve!".
Think about it!
About the author:
Tony Dean is a published author and writes ezine articles - runs
a web site at:- http://www.ebook-sales.com
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