Google Translate

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http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/19/google-translate-how-it-works/#continued

[1weatherman]

Interesting info. Thank for the link.

[WilliaminBKK]

Good information, thanks

I often wonder if there is any need for a site to be multi-lingual anymore with all the tools available ?

[Pib]

I use Google Translate all the time...it's set to automatically run with my browser, however, Google Translate don't work on "graphics-based" web pages (more of these pages everyday...both partially and completely graphics-based pages) since the text needing translation is an image/graphics versus text which Google Translate can translate. But without Google Translate I would have probably went crazy (or more crazy) years ago in trying to figure out what a web page in the Thai language was trying to say.

[terryp]

GT is absolute garbage, try a simple test translate from English to German then to French and back to English ....you wont even know what the original English text was

I gave up with GT as it was causing too many problems and massive confusion

And these are 3 of the most used languages in the World

[Pib]

German and French in the top 3 languages used in the world? Based on the first three links that came up when I googled this, French/German did come in around number 9 or 10 in some of the links. But you are right, Google Translate sometimes does a poor job...definitely something got lost in the translation. But I know for me when it translates Thai to English it usually get the sentence/pargraph in the ballpark where I can understand what they are saying.

http://en.wikipedia....native_speakers

http://www.krysstal.com/spoken.html

http://www2.ignatius...r/languages.htm