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Google translate - saver or killer?

Nowadays,with the desire to save more of our time,we often prefer to call the Internet and, as we all know, the most popular search engine of all, preferred by the majority, is Google with all of the applications it owns.

We may sometimes think that Google Translate application can save us at any time if we are in difficulty when translating a text.

We must always consider the type of text that we want to translate with this application, because the translation of a nonliterary text differs from that of a literary text that leaves much room for interpretation.

What is Google Translate?

Google Translate is a free translation service that provides instant translations between 58 different languages. It can translate words, sentences and web pages between any combination of our supported languages. Google Translate hopes to make information universally accessible and useful, regardless of the language in which it's written.

How does it work?

When Google Translate generates a translation, it looks for patterns in hundreds of millions of documents to help decide on the best translation for you. By detecting patterns in documents that have already been translated by human translators, Google Translate can make intelligent guesses as to what an appropriate translation should be. This process of seeking patterns in large amounts of text is called "statistical machine translation". Since the translations are generated by machines, not all translation will be perfect. The more human-translated documents that Google Translate can analyse in a specific language, the better the translation quality will be. This is why translation accuracy will sometimes vary across languages.

Google Translate tests other languages, called "alpha languages", that may have less-reliable translation quality than our supported languages. It's always working to support other languages and will introduce them as soon as the translation quality meets our standards.