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August 5 at 1:13 am
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"Google is working on a new service called Google Translation Center. Just a short while ago, we noticed that “center” had been added to Google’s robots.txt file, and now co-editor Tony Ruscoe discovered the link to the working frontpage... though logging in fails right now. According to the Google explanations on the frontpage and their product overview page, we can see this is meant to be a translation service which offers both volunteers and professional translators... and I suppose at least the professionals will want to get paid. In that regards, the service is in the field of sites like Click2Translate.com (a service by the company which Tony works for, incidentally, and which I’m often using for some of my sites)." - Shannon Jiménez
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What do you guys think about Google offering this service? - Shannon Jiménez
I think this is another piece of evidence that the translation industry is changing. Professional translations are only to be used in ever narrower fields where high quality and accuracy are absolutely necessary. Clients with more flexible quality requirements would probably take advantage of free or low-cost solutions by part-time translators or volunteers. However, this kind of service will also fill the market with poor translations, especially online... - Jianjun Zhang