Google Translates Multilingual Web Into One Universal Tongue: Chrome

Google's making sure that Chrome's ascendancy is a global phenomenon, using a uniquely Google trick: It's building automatic machine translation into the browser itself. Is Google trying to turn the planet into a happy chattering Net family?

Google, announcing the tweak, notes that the Web is an "amazingly multilingual place." Well, duh! There are nearly 7,000 languages in the World so that's really not much of a surprise. And while we may be sometimes forgiven for assuming that English has...