{"id":2306,"date":"2009-01-08T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2009-01-08T17:55:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:55:48","slug":"translations-yahoo-beats-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2306","title":{"rendered":"Translations: Yahoo beats Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Google. They are my investors in Fon.  Having said this, I don\u00b4t understand why the translation tools of Google are so much worse than those of Yahoo.  Especially in English to German.  During this vacation I started learning German with my girlfriend Nina, and I was trying to &#8220;cheat&#8221; by using the Google translation tools to do my &#8220;homework.&#8221;  It did not work.  But now that I use Babelfish of Yahoo I sound much better. The problem is that I went from sounding absurd to sounding &#8220;too good to be true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Have you heard of the test in which you had to guess if you are talking to a computer or a person?  Well, that tests fails with Google Translator but it frequently passes with Babelfish.  Try this simple sentence: I like to fish in the ocean.  Yahoo gets that &#8216;to fish&#8217; is a verb, Google doesn\u00b4t.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2306\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Google. They are my investors in Fon. Having said this, I don\u00b4t understand why the translation tools of Google are so much worse than those of Yahoo. Especially in English to German. During this vacation I started learning German with my girlfriend Nina, and I was trying to &#8220;cheat&#8221; by using the Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}