What Language Is This? Dot Com!

Since the language analyzer is becoming one of the most used web services that I run, the other day I was thinking that it would be cool get it its own domain (and a .dom domain costs just 50 SEK (around 850 yen in normal times) anyway). So I was thinking about what domain name to get - that isn't already taken - and well, one of the most common search phrases people use to find the language analyzer is "what language is this webpage/blog/text/whatever" and luckily whatlanguageisthis.com was available, so there it is! I think it's quite easy to remember and very easy to tell people. 4 stars out of 5, perhaps? Pretty good.


Setting up the new site was pretty easy; it's essentially just a php script that chdirs into the language analyzer directory and continues from there as before.

I also did another nice update: the data file that the app uses to identify the language is now downloaded after the page and all the application javascript files have loaded. That means the page should load much faster, and the user can start reading the instructions or entering text while the data is being downloaded in the background. If the user clicks "Go" before the data file is downloaded, it will stop and wait, while displaying a typical web 2.0-ish loading indicator.

I'm planning to add support for more languages soon, and improve identification of similar-looking languages even further. Anyway, here's the url for the new site again:
http://whatlanguageisthis.com/