Human Translation v. Computers | Facebook v. Google

October 7th, 2009 by Ron McCoy

There’s an interesting article on the topic of translation appearing online at cnn.com today. It speaks for itself so we’ll simply provide a link to the article here. The highlights: 

  • Facebook and Google are finding new ways to translate the Web
  • Facebook favors human translation; Google leans on its computers
  • Google claims to be the largest translation service online, with 51 languages
  • Facebook announces a new service to let Internet users help translate site

To read the full article click here.

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