Now, users can view and cross-translate pages in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.

Recently I had a great experience with Google Translate – while working onsite at a client’s office, it came to my attention that one of the phones wasn’t configured properly. As usual, no one had any idea who to contact for the setup details or maintenance password… After about 5 minutes of google searching I found an obscure page, in Chinese, with the factory default password and troubleshooting steps (albeit occasionally hilarious ones).

Read more at the Google Official Blog article on this topic.

Most of us have heard of how this sort of thing will one day change the way we look for information, but thus far no company has really shown us a product that lived up to the hype. The good news is that the wait shouldn’t be much longer, as the market is ripe for a well implemented search technology to raise the bar for the rest of the industry.

You can sign up to become an Alpha tester on PowerSet’s main site, or visit their blog and leave a few comments. Good luck guys.