rlange - 4:15 pm on Mar 24, 2011 (gmt 0)

austtr wrote: Whoa there..... if I put a Google translation button on my pages I'm providing the viewer with a way to see a crappy translation. If I create multi-language pages as part of my site I'm providing the viewer with a way to see a crappy translation. Same outcome... the common denominator is the tool that outputs the crappy translation.

One big difference: I believe the crappy translations in Option #1 won't be indexed, thereby avoiding a potential wrist-slapping by Google. Of course, you loose potential foreign-language searches, too.