By CLICK Staff
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One of the most heavily used tools/resources on the web,
Google Translate enables, via a simple cut-and-paste, for the translation of paragraphs of copy or a document from one language to another. It is described on the site as a free translation service that provides instant translations between dozens of different languages. It can translate words, sentences and web pages between any combination of Google's 71 supported languages. The company explains that when Google Translate generates a translation, it looks for patterns in hundreds of millions of documents to help decide on the best translation for the user. 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. That means that the translations could have certain imperfections, and, Google says, its translation accuracy will sometimes vary across languages. A helpful
video explains how it works.
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