I still hear people talking about AltaVista’s Babelfish translator, but a quick comparison of this venerable web utility with the version from Google shows there’s no contest. Here’s a snip from a Facebook group description in French:
Un journaliste du monde a écrit un article où il expliquait comment aujourd’hui, n’importe quelle personne pouvait créer un groupe sur Facebook et toucher 100 000 personnes en quelques semaines . Il demandait donc à Facebook de surveiller de plus près le contenu des groupes et les messages véhiculés.
Here’s the Babelfish translation:
A journalist of the world wrote an article where it explained how aujourd’ today, does not import which person could create a group on Facebook and touch 100 000 people in a few weeks. He thus asked Facebook more closely to supervise the contents of the groups and the messages conveyed.
And here’s the Google Translate version:
A journalist from the World wrote an article in which he explained how today, anyone can create a group on Facebook and reach 100000 people in a few weeks. He therefore called on Facebook to monitor more closely the content of groups and messages.
Still not perfect, but much, much better. The Babelfish version is barely intelligible.
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Google translation seems good but sometimes they use an out of context word. But I guess, yahoo has the same problem.