My cousin is in first grade and sometimes she writes short stories for class. I try to share the stories with her grandparents, but because Japanese is their first language and they don’t speak English very well, it’s been tough. Today we’re releasing a feature for Google Docs to make this kind of multi-lingual sharing easier — you can now automatically translate documents into 42 different languages.

So for my cousin’s latest story, I helped her type it up in Google Docs and then clicked “Translate document” from the “Tools” menu. In a matter of seconds, Google Docs has translated the whole story into Japanese using Google Translate’s technology.

Lynda.com new release – Illustrator CS4 One-on-One: Mastery by Deke McClelland.

In Illustrator CS4 One-on-One: Mastery, the third and final part of the comprehensive One-on-One series, author and industry expert Deke McClelland teaches how to take advantage of the wide array of dynamic effects in Illustrator CS4. Deke explores Live Trace, which converts imported images into vectors, and Live Paint, which defines interlocking shapes. Deke also covers the liquify tools, envelope-style distortions, kuler and Live Color, symbols, and 3D effects. And for the first time, Deke addresses two of Illustrator’s least-known features, pictographs and actions. Exercise files accompany the course.

To follow-up on my last SEO honeymoon post, I wanted to mention a few points that expand it a little and consider this scenario from the perspective from someone inheriting a site from another SEO agency or consultant.

I didn’t intend for this to be a two-part piece initially, but I thought it might be helpful to provide some pragmatic advice for those SEO consultants who feel that they’ve been there before or those that can see this sort of scenario playing out in their working career.  So here goes…

A quick reminder: what is the SEO honeymoon?

It looks like Google may have scored big time in the UK Market. What if it is being used by one of  the leading online portal in the UK as a search engine. But what is more important is the fact that online portal happens to be a co-branded service of BT Broadband and  BT Yahoo?

Connected Internet UK is reporting that BT Yahoo has just replaced Yahoo search for the portal’s natural and sponsored results. Although the new arrangement will not affect other Yahoo services on BT Yahoo, the fact still remains that it will be using Google, not Bing to power its UK portal’s search engine.

SearchBastard is a new (still experimental) addon that allows for a huge number of cool features for search addicts:

• Search multiple search engines with one click;
• Quickly access any search engine;
• Quickly look up words on a page;
• Easily search right from the address bar.

Arrange Your Search Engines in Groups:

• For easier access;
• For the bulk search: perform search on a number of engines at a time.

Note: assign alias for each group for one-click search.

Use Multisearch: Frames or Tabs:

Google Docs is now integrated with Google Translate so you can translate documents directly from the word processor’s interface. Click on the “Tools” menu, select “Translate document” and choose the destination language. Google will translate your document and offer two options: “Replace original document with this translation” and “Copy to new document”.

The problem is that in both cases there’s no link between the original document and the translation. To better translate documents collaboratively, Google should integrate Google Translator Toolkit into Google Docs.

If you want to translate documents, but they’re not stored in Google Docs, you can upload them to Google Translate.

May it please the Italian court. Google does not ban newspapers that opt-out of Google News from being in Google at all, as a new complaint from Italian publishers alleges.

It’s not actually a court that’s going to ponder this allegation. It’s Italy’s AGCM, which appears to be akin the the US Federal Trade Commission, a government organization to evaluate antitrust behavior. The Italian Federation Of Newspaper and Periodical Publishers (FIEG) has asked the AGCM to investigate Google.

For more information, go to: http://code.google.com/speed