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Language conversion with Google API and Ajax

Introduction The "Hello, World" of the Google AJAX Language API The easiest way to start learning about this API is to see a simple example. The following example will detect the language of the given text and then translate it to English. html > head > script type = "text/javascript" src = "http://www.google.com/jsapi" > script > script type = "text/javascript" > google . load ( "language" , "1" ); function initialize () { var text = document . getElementById ( "text" ). innerHTML ; google . language . detect ( text , function ( result ) { if (! result . error && result . language ) { google . language . translate ( text , result . language , "en" , function ( result ) { var translated = document . getElementById ( "translation" ); if ( result . translation ) { translat...