![]() We believe that the Internet and cloud-based tools are a key part of a 21st century classroom, helping students learn and teachers teach in collaborative and innovative ways. We use the Internet all the time: at home, at work (especially at Google!), on the move, and, increasingly, at school. Posted by Cynthia Yeung, Partner Strategy Team *LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered people and is also intended to include people who identify as queer, asexual or intersexed, amongst others. We hope you enjoy this photo album of our global celebrations. This is not the first year that Google has supported Pride, and it will certainly not be the last. Google is a company that supports its LGBT employees, taking a public stand on issues that are important to our community. ![]() Hundreds of nuts, bolts and gallons of helium later, the truck was transformed, the sun came out and we were ready to march through the city streets, cheered on by a crowd of 50,000. After weeks of sunshine, on the morning of the parade it began to storm, but that didn't deter our intrepid Googlers from being out at 6:30am turning a 28-ton truck into a rainbow-colored nightclub on wheels. celebrations in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and San Francisco.Įarlier this month, around 50 Googlers and friends gathered to celebrate at Europride, Europe's best-known Gay Pride celebration. Hundreds of Googlers also joined other U.S. Some 75 Googlers, family members and friends marched with several hundred members of New York's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center. In the U.S., this year's celebration is historically important: it's the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City, a response to what was then routine police harassment of LGBT people. Pride is a time for the LGBT* community along with families, friends and supporters to stand up for equality, and to honor those who paved the way for us to express sexual orientation and gender identity openly. In the spirit of celebration, this spring and summer Googlers have participated in Pride celebrations in Tel Aviv, New York, Zürich, San Francisco and many other cities around the world. Posted by Jerry Tang and Dick Sites, Software EngineersĪll around Google, we're proud of our work, our culture and, most importantly, our people. However, millions of people do not know Russian and cannot read the millions of Russian-language webpages. If you are reading this text, you probably already speak in Russian. * In case you don't speak Russian, we translated the paragraph above for you using our translation engine: We'll add this feature to Toolbar for Firefox soon, too. ![]() The new Translate feature is available in all international versions of Toolbar, including English, and the translation service supports 41 different languages: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.ĭownload Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer to try it out for yourself. Finally, if you frequently translate pages in the same language, Toolbar will let you translate that language automatically without any extra clicks in the future. And if the page has dynamic content, like Google Reader, you will get translations in real-time. If you go to another page in the same language, you will continue to see translations rather than have to translate one page at a time. You can find more details about how the feature works in our help center. Language detection happens only on your computer, so no information is sent to Google until you choose to translate a page. With one click, you can now instantly translate the page and all of its text will appear in the new language. The Translate feature automatically detects if the language of a webpage you're on is different from your default language setting and allows you to translate it. ![]() We have been working with the Translate team to make translations a faster and more integrated part of your browsing experience. Today we're excited to announce that translations will be even easier with the newest release of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer. ![]() You would likely need to translate manually via our language tools or in Toolbar. If you saw this text on a webpage, how would you figure out what it means? ![]()
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