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Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Use Bing to instantly translate queries from one language to another with our translation Instant Answer!  Starting today, when you are looking for a translation of a word or phrase, go to Bing.com and kick off an instant translation, powered by Microsoft Translator.  Instant translation is another way that Bing helps you complete tasks faster by presenting better organized and more relevant content.

What to expect?

Example query: translate I love you

Bing returns:

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Example query: translate I love you to Japanese

Bing returns:

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Example query: how do you say apple juice in Spanish

Bing returns:

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Enjoy!!

Cheers,

Lane Rau

Microsoft Translator

Published Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:46 PM by MSR-MT Team

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Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:52 AM by Mamby Camara

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

wow!

I was wondering when it will happen!

Great!

Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:48 AM by bob e

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Doesn't work that well I am afraid but a nice addition to the Bing family.  Keep em coming and crush the goog

Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:19 AM by News: Everything-e

# Bing Gains Instant Translation Abilities

However it fares in other respects, it may not be long before Bing becomes the favorite search engine

Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:18 PM by Translation Agency

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

This is really cool.I love the new look of Live(Bing)

Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:32 PM by Search Blog

# Instant Translation in Bing

One of the things we’re focused on with Bing is bringing the answer you’re looking for to the top of

Friday, June 12, 2009 6:05 AM by FremyCompany

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Not fully operational (Translate I'd like some tea to French, ...) but it's very great !

Friday, June 12, 2009 8:12 AM by Surplus Stock

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

is it fully operational? Very Nice Feature, can we have it on our website?

Friday, June 12, 2009 8:15 AM by David Miller

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Now this is what I was waiting for! I bet a lot of other people were waiting for Bing to come up with something like this, I really like it as I think Bing is the best search engine out there! Thanks for this great feature.

Friday, June 12, 2009 8:46 AM by Nikhil

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Gr8 work. But i m misin my native language Hindi.!

Friday, June 12, 2009 9:24 AM by http://bookmark.giorgiotave.it

# [eng] Bing traduce al volo nella barra di ricerca

Scrivi nella barra di ricrca Translate (o how do you say), metti la frase da tradurre poi aggiungi il linguaggio di destinazione: e voilà Bing traduce.

Friday, June 12, 2009 12:55 PM by Chris Wendt

# re: Microsoft Translator on your web site

To Surplus Stock: Yes, you can have it on your web site. Check out the Web Widget section on http://sdk.microsofttranslator.com. You can have the widget that is on this blog, on your site as well.

Saturday, June 13, 2009 1:56 PM by wpallen

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Awesome stuff!  Bing is going to give The Big G a run for its money!  About time!

Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:54 PM by wigglesworth

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Does Microsoft translation use a rule-based methodology or one based on phrases like Google's  translation feature?

I prefer the latter; rule based systems seem to fail when there are exceptions to the rule.

but I like bing enough that I will try it translation feature out.  

Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:03 PM by wigglesworth

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

One more thing, is there a limit to how long translation queries can be?

I tried the following:

translate he already had his blood pressure taken to Spanish

But I got just a link to Microsoft Translator, instead of a translation.

And, should I try this with quotes?

translate "he already had his blood pressure taken" to Spanish

Lastly, what if I type a query using the words "to [language]" but want to translate that?

example:

translate "The books were translated to French" to Chinese

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:42 AM by Quality Directory

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

I've just experimented with Bing to instantly translate queries to Chinese. And I'm happy with the results. I hope Microsoft Translator will soon become the dominating reference point for web-based translations.

Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:05 PM by SthrnDixieCwgrl

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

I have not had issues in the past, but today I had an issue with the site.  Symantec gave the following message:

Site is Unsafe

What needs to be done to fix this.

Monday, June 22, 2009 4:04 PM by William

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I can't get it to work for some reason...

Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:58 AM by Computer products

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

I knew this beautiful feature will be implemented on the new decision search engine, Bing.

Sunday, June 28, 2009 9:55 AM by openTMS

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Tried to call Microsoft Translator from Java... based on the C++ example

does not work; just comes back with

Server returned HTTP response code: 500 for URL: http://api.microsofttranslator.com/V1/Http.svc/GetLanguages

Sunday, June 28, 2009 9:55 AM by openTMS

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Tried to call Microsoft Translator from Java... based on the C++ example

does not work; just comes back with

Server returned HTTP response code: 500 for URL: http://api.microsofttranslator.com/V1/Http.svc/GetLanguages

Sunday, June 28, 2009 9:57 AM by openTMS

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Just tried to connect to Microsoft Translator using Java based on the C++ example. Server just answers:

Server returned HTTP response code: 500 for URL: http://api.microsofttranslator.com/V1/Http.svc/GetLanguages

Curious...

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:31 PM by Mi videoaudioblog

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Para que puedan traducir mi pàgina fàcilmente

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:45 AM by Quality Directory

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Merging Bing comfortably with instant translation has been the main reason why I stay glued to Bing. Now I don't have to go to another site to do that. A great time saver!

Sunday, August 23, 2009 12:50 AM by james reber

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

I had no Idea what language that was

Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:02 PM by Mike McElroy

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

I can have a conversation with TBot just fine.  It translates great.  The problem comes when I try to talk with a real friend.  How do I bring my friend into the conversation?

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 3:19 AM by Rambabu

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

please tell me is there any xml for translatable languages list.I have to create xml for nearly 700 languages.

Saturday, October 17, 2009 8:55 AM by Global Freelance Projects

# re: Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing

Bing is a very nice search engine with new features.

Thanks MSN.

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