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We are about to launch a similar service www.appliedasianlanguages.com for Asian language translations. We will be relying a lot less on machine translation and keeping the balance weighted to good old fashioned human translation. Technology still hasn't advanced enough yet to provide human quality translations.

Great article jason

www.proz.com is the leading site about translators and translation services.

What will happend with sites like that?

I am also translating between danish/swedish, english/danish/swedish and a couple of other languages. Tried to translate one of my pages to danish and immediately saw many wrong translations. Google where not able to translaye all words and the grammar looks weird.

Anyway, this service could be useful for translating languages you are not familiar with so you´ll get a clue about content.

This service is similar to http://babelfish.yahoo.com.

why is everyone think there must be something up just cause its fee

Google's found a way to discriminate between the tera-terabytes of crap available to their spiders on the Web - "information" - and knowledge.

Think about it - would you pay someone to translate the results of the typical Google search?   Of course not.

But Google Translation Center has people submitting information they would pay to have translated to them, for free, no strings attached.  If this setup lasts (why wouldn't it?  the overhead can't be very large... )  then Google has found a way to set up the nongovernmental equivalent of the National Technical Information Service, translations and all, and have other people pay for it.

If Google knows how to do something by now, it's searching massive amounts of data.  Now here comes Google Translation Service, information wanting to be free and automatically translated.  To quote the Old Milwaukee Beer commercials, it just doesn't get better than this.

This could be a good exchange for translation users and translators and agencies. Translation services are similar to SEO, lawyers, or IT consulting in the aspect that there are many providers out there, and the quality of the work can vary from a terrible to excellent. If Google can address this, the exchange could work.

A machine will never be able to translate as perfectly as a human being is. Translation is not only about knowing the right words, you have to read between the lines, grasp feelings and local dialects and expressions. Oh, there are lots of things to take into account.

We actually use Google's translation machine (as all the other translations' machines out there) for a laugh or to show clients that they get what they pay for - only a monkey works for peanuts.

Being a guild-oriented industry, someone has to shake those fatty translation agencies.

I already work with onehourtranslation.com , which is similar in concept and  amazingly fast.

I'm actually happy with this new buzz around the translation world, this would be without doubt good for the consumers.

I agree wth Lucas, translation needs to be done correctly or not done at all.  poor translation can hurt a business and drive potential customers away with just a single bad translated word.

Translation is still a Quality and Trust Topic!

quite an interesting Startup launched a few months ago and will be available in english within the next weeks: http://www.tolingo.com/

similiar to Google Translation Center with translation memory help for human translator!

Will google change the online translation market for good?

Will it do to the translation market what it had odne to search? This billion USD market is certainly going to change.

A lot of players in this market will vanish. Others who offer better products like http://www.tomedes.com will survive.