What do you think of this service?

Hi!

I've just stumbled across an interesting service: http://free-website-translation.com - If you have a website, you can create a button for it that automaticly translates your page into any language chosen by your visitor... using the google-translation-technology.

What do you think of this service? Is it something you would use? Or is automatic translation still too horrible to be really useful?

I myself would say, that it is at least good enough for foreigners to understand the basic information on your website...

It depends on the language. English to Romance language is best, followed by English to a Germanic language. I think that the reason for that is that the word order and structure of English is very similar to the Romance languages, and the word order is similar to a lesser extent to most of the other Western Germanic languages, buty the structure is of course very similar. The Asian languages like Chinese and Japanese seem to translate very badly however.