I think it's very interesting that this should come out a day or two after Facebook's announcement of their crowdsourced translations for websites. I think it shows Google is worried about facebook taking this "market" (speech marks used to indicate lack of revenue) away from them. This gadget would be even better if after provided an automated translation, it gave the end user the ability to submit their corrections to that machine translation. That would help improve Google's automation and also be a form of crowdsourcing. Of course you'd need to be weary of have mechanisms built in to prevent spammers or haters from translating your content to something inappropriate or misleading. - Alex Trup from FriendFeed MT Plugin