March 07, 2010
Translation and other cool interfaces
For years translation on the web has been a joke. So, I was very surprised when I looked at Aromicon - German site about wine - "aromicon ist eine Geschmackssuchmaschine für Wein". I don't read German, but my Google Toolbar does. It automatically detected the foreign language and offere to translate. The translation was into fairly understandable English - though this passage has a curious word - "Robert M. Parker, Jr. - is American wine critic, and at the moment probably the einflussreiste wine critic at all." Google does not know that word at all.
Of course, Google can't translate images (a reminder to web designers to not make images the only way to access something or convey the information)
The site itself is very attractive and has the most interesting taxonomy for wine searching: aroma (fruit, chocolate, floral ...), type of food (fish, poultry ...) and region (region - country)
It was singled out by Charles Knight at The Next Web as one of The Top 10 Most Creative Search Engine Interfaces
Try them all. I thought TagGalaxy for browsing Flickr by tags was visually spectacular.
Posted by Gwen at March 7, 2010 01:24 PM