Comments on: Google dominates in machine translation tests

The search giant beats out technology from IBM and academia in tests translating Arabic and Chinese articles to English.

[volterwd]

Babel fish is better

google also cant translate names... even literally

陆大龙

for example... wont even fully translate in google even literal translations would be good

[volterwd]

hmmmm

guess cnet doesnt support chinese in comments oh well

[Mendz]

Web as a platform...

... and Google has the applications, tools and utilities to boot...

[shanlone]

Google Language Tools

They work well even here in China. I teach languages here and often when my studnts don't understand these tools provide an accurate translation. Best I have used so far then other machine translation programs.

[helgahayes]

This is an old article. There are more recent companies and tools which perform much better. Three years ago google was the best tool but it was also the only one. Competition is now growing.