Mgccl's Ivory Towerso tired

Is there ever a time when you want to show the translation for a word or phrase to your friend?
Google can do it. In fact, Google does it well, except some small translation errors outrage millions of Chinese people.

It is not possible to send the page after the translation to people because you can't see the query string, like this one,

After using Firefox's Live HTTP header, I successfully find the query string! http://www.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF8&text=you&langpair=en%7Czh-CN

hl= the interface language
ie=encoding(I think)
text=the text to translate
langpair=the original language and the translated language

For minimalists: you don't have to pass hl and ie

The Google Translate on URL is the same thing, just replace text with u and the string for test to URL.
I wish I can extract the returning page's translated string(which IS easy) and offers it as a service, people around the world will love me very much.

I just add this to my robots.txt

Sitemap: /gsitemap

Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask now all accept this new line in the robot.txt. This is the sitemap auto discovery so your sitemap will automatically loaded by the search engines.

Chinese people does not have the benefit of using 26 letters for all words, that's where the IME fill the blank. For years, PinYin is the most popular method to input Chinese because it follows the pronunciation word instead of the character structure(Believe me, those Chinese characters are COMPLEX). Google isn't doing so well in China because Baidu, No.7 most high traffic site in the world ranked by Alexa, have more market share according to this report in Search Engine Journal. The release of it's Google Chinese PinYin IME already caused over 1.5 million download in 2 days, even I got a piece of the treat.

In my opinion Google could slowly gain the market back by this product, at least it have a amazing feature of store the common phrase you type in the Google server so you can syndicate with your Google IME.
BTW I got featured in Getthemlaid.com

I haven't check out Performancing Metrics for a long time, and when I check it out today I was shocked by the table, Google Analytics looks like crap.

The table is for purely marketing purpose, basically Metrics just find all of its unique features and stuff on that table.
So I have to make a comparison between the two myself. check my screencast or the pros and cons list below:

Metrics
Pros

• Simple graphs
• Live stat
• User action in detail
• Referrals in detail
• Real time Spy View

Cons

• No content analysis

Google Analytics
Pros

• Set gals and observe goal conversion
• Content analysis, adword analysis
• Rich presentation
• Export data into different format
• Executive, Marketer and Webmaster Overview

Cons

• Slow learning curve
• Slow javascript loading speed

Conclusion:
Google Analytics are for serious websites that have a clear marketing goal with few good professionals(Executive, Marketer and Webmaster).But it is just too slow for most people(after using analytics for 6 months, I still need 10 second to find "Referring Source" link, and watch yesterday's stat slowly show up though the flash...you know I don't like flash)
Metrics is a fast and good choice for most websites that only requires to know the most important part of
visitor's info--who(IP), where(referral, Geo location), when(time), what(user actions) and sometimes why(user search in google)

I'm going to check Metrics more often because it have just become my primary analytic system
BTW:
Metrics is the rebranded version of Clicky
Google analytics is the renamed version of Urchin

Halla from Information Leak published three videos show people how to put some useful strings and find interesting pages.
Basically, it's using application specific + unique data embedded in the URL or HTML to find sites uses those applications. The search string find other people's security camera backend is creepy(and cool) :yes!:
(Hacking into someone's FTP is also easier with Google's help)
Google Hacks 1
Google Hacks 2
Google Hacks 3