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Google lets you suggest a better translation

Have you ever translated a website into another language only to find the result even more confusing?  Well, there is a new feature in Google Translate that lets users suggest an alternative for incorrectly translated phrases -- likely adding "expert" knowledge to Google's statistical translation model in hopes of making their service better.
Written by Garett Rogers, Inactive

Have you ever translated a website into another language only to find the result even more confusing?  Well, there is a new feature in Google Translate that lets users suggest an alternative for incorrectly translated phrases -- likely adding "expert" knowledge to Google's statistical translation model in hopes of making their service better.

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The new feature only appears to work with languages labeled as "BETA" on the translation tools page -- these languages include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Russian.  The image above is the translated result of a Russian company (with an interesting name) that provides free webmail to users.

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