re: Live Agents Platform Retires Support For Bots, Tbot Gets Own Run Time Environment

Sunshine — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:55:21 GMT

@CalumJR Yes, there indeed are problems with sign-in on the translator. I just tried and I got the exact same thing..redirects and not signed in at the translator :S

I did notice that I couldn't change the market either. Hopefully these issues will be fixed soon.

I fully agree that the translator needs to get integrated more. It could do with a link under Explore on Bing too (don't see why not). Bing translator was on page 2 (result 13) for me when searching "translator" on Bing!

re: Live Agents Platform Retires Support For Bots, Tbot Gets Own Run Time Environment

CalumJR — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:27:52 GMT

I find it funny that if you search "Translator" in Bing, Bing Translator is nowhere to be seen; at least in the first 5 results. In fact, the first result is Google Translator.

C'mon Bing! They really need to integrate the translator into the product with clear promotion that it is actually there. A way they could implement it is if somebody searches for a term similar to "hello in Spanish" etc or "www.google.com in French". They could display the result in Spanish or French etc.

That is programmable and it would make a lot of sense. It would save effort having to go to Bing Translator, changing the language and typing it in.

One thing I've noticed is that te sign-in part of Bing Translator doesn't seem to work. It re-directs the user to a really old Windows Live ID sign-in page and then when logged in, re-directs to Windows Live Account. Going back to Bing Translator shows you as not signed in. It also doesn't recognise the market I have set Bing to (United States English), it recognises it as my actual market, which is ridiculous as they are the people who are not including the features they promised in my market.