The New York Times: Google Translate – Breaking Down The Language Barrier
Even language experts say Google Translate, which handles 52 different languages, is state of the art when it comes to machine translation.
In a meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an e-mail message the company had received from a fan in South Korea. Sergey Brin, a Google founder, ran the message through an automatic translation service that the company had licensed.
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The message said Google was a favorite search engine, but the result read: ‘The sliced raw fish shoes it wishes. Google green onion thing!'”