Leading with languages: Why 30 languages is below average
According to the 2019 Web Globalization Report Card, 32 languages is the “average” number of languages supported by the leading global brands.
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Google and Wikipedia: Partners in (multilingual) content
In 2008, Google launched a project called Knol. Remember it? It was designed to replace Wikipedia. Google apparently wasn’t happy …
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A More Responsive Google Translate
Google Translate is the world’s most popular translation tool. The company says it now translates 30 trillion sentences a year …
Google Translate: Ten Years Later
I remember when Google Translate went live. Hard to believe it was 10 years ago. I remember thinking that this relatively …
In search of a better translation icon
A few years ago I wrote about the translation icon and its many variations at that point in time. I thought …
The humans behind machine translation
Google Translate is the world’s most popular machine translation tool. And, despite predictions by many experts in the translation industry, …
Gabble On: Using machine translation to learn a language
Ethan Shen, who has become quite an expert on the various machine translation (MT) engines, has launched a nifty web …
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Think your translator is cutting corners? Try the machine translation detector…
Lior Libman of One Hour Translation has released a web tool that you can use to quickly determine if text …
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