Posts Tagged with ‘machine-translation’

Marissa Mayer Predicts the Future of Search and Misspells the Name of My City

Svetlana Gladkova

Today we have seen the beginning of a new initiative on the Official Google Blog to predict the future of search based on opinions of top 10 Google experts. The series has started with a post by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience.
Marissa begins with a confession that she is a search addict yet she performs about 20% of the total number of queries she could if search was constantly available. To prove that point she mentions a [...]

Google Search Translation Service Tested

Svetlana Gladkova

I have had rather vast experience as freelance translator so I am particularly interested in testing all translation-related Web tools. There are some good translation and language-learning communities online (and we have already mentioned some of them). But I have never seen any good example of machine translation. I have seen funny examples, ridiculous examples, even hilarious examples. But never in my life have I seen a good (or even so-so) example of machine translation.
I always thought that using [...]