You can har­ness your user­base (cus­tomers) to work for you for free, to com­plete big projects and to open new mar­kets. Want proof? Check out Google Trans­la­tion, where vol­un­teers trans­late var­i­ous Google prod­ucts, includ­ing Gmail and Orkut, into other languages.

Oh … and not just into “stan­dard” lan­guages, mind you: your choices include Pig-Latin (Ebway Earch­say), Klin­gon, Elmer Fudd (Feew­ing Wucky?) and Bork Bork Bork (Ze Sveed­ish Muppet-chef):

Google believes that fast and accu­rate search­ing has uni­ver­sal value. That’s why we are eager to offer our ser­vice in all the lan­guages scat­tered upon the face of the earth. We need your help to make this a reality.

You can vol­un­teer to trans­late Google’s help infor­ma­tion and search inter­face into your favorite lan­guage. By help­ing with our trans­la­tion process you ensure that Google will be avail­able in your lan­guage of choice more quickly and with a bet­ter inter­face than it would have oth­er­wise. There is no min­i­mum com­mit­ment. You can trans­late a phrase, a page or our entire site. Once we have enough of the site trans­lated, we will make it avail­able in the lan­guage you are requesting.