Friday, April 27, 2012

Google Translate - 200M users and more text than ever.

The massive translation service from google translates more text than any other translation service in the world combined in one day. According to google, this service is used by over 200 Million people per month. With this many users, the service is processing the equivalent to 1 million books worth of text.

In 2001, google started providing a service that could translate about 8 languages and from english. Although the translation quality wasn't very good. So in 2003, google engineers decided to revamp the translation service and the quality of the translations.


Currently Google translate can now translate websites and text in over 64 languages. You can find more information about this on the Google Blog.


What do you use Google Translation for? Do you use it often?

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  1. UnknownMay 1, 2012 at 11:31 PM

    I encountered a friend through YouTube/Facebook. He lives in Slovenia. Many Facebook posts are in Slovene. I wish Google Translate could do a better job with Slovenian, notwithstanding that there are but a very few million people who use that language.

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