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Google and Wikipedia: Partners in (multilingual) content

January 28, 2019 by John Yunker

In 2008, Google launched a project called Knol. Remember it? It was designed to replace Wikipedia. Google apparently wasn’t happy that so many of its visitors were quickly abandoning it for this nonprofit wealth of information. But Knol died a …

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Categories Google, India, Languages, Machine Translation, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

A More Responsive Google Translate

December 3, 2018 by John Yunker

Google Translate is the world’s most popular translation tool. The company says it now translates 30 trillion sentences a year across 103 languages. The key data point here is the 103 languages. No other free translation tool comes close to …

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Categories Global By Design, Global navigation, Google, Machine Translation, Mobile, Software Localization, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

The humans behind machine translation

May 15, 2015 by John Yunker

Google Translate is the world’s most popular machine translation tool. And, despite predictions by many experts in the translation industry, the quality of Google Translate has improved nicely over the past decade. Not so good that professional translators are in any …

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Categories Crowdsourcing, Google, Languages, Machine Translation

Web globalization predictions for 2014

December 9, 2013 by John Yunker

I’m optimistic about the year ahead. I base this optimism in part on discussions I’ve had this year with dozens of marketing and web teams across about ten countries. While every company has its own unique worldview and challenges, a …

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Categories Apple, Languages, Machine Translation, Web Globalization

Google Translate App for iPhone: Will it hit number 1? (Answer: Yes!)

June 19, 2013February 9, 2011 by John Yunker

I’m a little amazed by all the press that the Google Translate app for iPhone is getting today. From The Wall Street Journal to the LA Times, this app is getting noticed. And this app doesn’t even include the “Conversation …

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Categories Apple, Google, iPhone, Machine Translation

Google, Bing and Babelfish: What’s the best translation engine?

May 17, 2010 by John Yunker

Two months ago I wrote about an effort to evaluate the quality of the three major free machine translation (MT) engines: Google Translate Bing (Microsoft) Translator Yahoo! Babelfish Ethan Shen has wrapped up the project, soliciting input from more than …

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Categories Google, Machine Translation, Microsoft
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