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Desktop alternatives to MegauploadI'm a big fan of online translators, not only because I'm interested in languages in general, but also because they make my work easier every day. Google Translator has been sitting on my Bookmarks Toolbar for a long time, as it is the translating service I use more often. However I recently found out that Microsoft's Bing has launched its own translating tool, so I decided to give it a go. You have to try things before judging them, don't you?
The first obvious difference between Google and Bing is precisely their translating powers: while the first supports more than 50 different languages, the latter features only 20. But the truth is that when Google Translator was launched it didn't support that many languages either, so I wouldn't be surprised to see Bing Translator adding more languages in the future.
One thing I love about Google Translator is its ability to detect source language automatically, so I don't have to select it every time I use it. Luckily Bing Translator offers the same functionality. Also, besides direct translations, both Google and Bing offer some extra tools, such as a widget to offer a translated version of your website (both), a special utility to perform translated searches (Google only) or a translating bot to assist you in multi-language chats (Bing only).
Now, what about translations themselves? Honestly, I didn't find much differences between them in my tests. I tried several language combinations with Spanish, English, German and Italian, using different texts and swapping the source and target languages in order to test the translating engines. The results were surprisingly similar, in both ways: when Google Translator obtains a good translation, so does Bing; and when Bing produces a completely absurd text, Google doesn't succeed either.
Oddly enough, both seem to be better at translating into English: as soon as you pick another target language, results are a bit distorted. Both are also equally fast: you hardly have to wait for more than 5 seconds to have your text translated. The only difference I noticed, if any, is that Bing seems to be slightly better at certain expressions, providing you with the correct translation instead of a meaningless word-by-word equivalent.
Generally speaking though, both Google and Bing feature similarly powerful translating engines. So if you work with different languages on a daily basis and need to do frequent translations, I'd suggest you take advantage of both of them!
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I did a similar comparasion between the two using French and German. With German the results were similair to yours - they both did well on individual words, but stumbled on sentence word order and had your translations looking like Shakespeare wrote them. With French it was a different matter. Google does much better at adjectives and their placements. And with French homographs I had the distinct impression that Google picked the right word more often. (must be their "feel lucky" experience. The biggest drawback to Google over Bing was the limited amount of text (one paragraph) that Google translates at time (at least my version, the word monkey) versus a whole page in Bing. Now the length of the text to be translated normally drives which version I use.
i think google is better
I can't speak for the other languages, but in German-English translations Bing is way better than Google.
I can’t speak for the other languages, but in Arabic-English translations Bing is way better than Google
I can’t speak for the other languages, but in Thai-English translations Bing is way better than Google
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I can’t speak for the other languages, but in portuguese-English translations GOOGLE is way better than Bing Greetings from Brazil! ;]
I think it depends on what language you want to translate to. I mean, for example, maybe Google is better when you translate an certain language to french but Bing would be more powerful in translating to a different language, in japanese for example.
I like bing more then google in Danish>English. Its better, but not that much a diffrence.
Nice article. Odd - the same exact article appears here: http://bloggingexpert-blogger.blogspot.com/2010/03/bing-translator-vs-google-translator.html by someone else...
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Well I tried Hindi-English translation in google. Results were surprisingly incorrect. eg.I wrote "मूर्खता को सरल language में परिभाषित नहीं किया जा सकता है" it means Stupidity cannot be defined in simple language but the result was Stupidity can be defined in simple language
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I find that Bing comes up short with Latin languages. Sometimes dreadfully so. I'll take Google over Bing for my translations.
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Google is a lot better than bing!
working with google is a charm. Bing's ok, but have to learn a lot...
Fuck bing!
Fuk Bink! It's a sht!
Well now its 2011 things have changed a lot between these two, obviously they have something the other does not, and google was the winner for many time but by now Bing has made really bing improves not only on its translator but also in its maps, now days bing translator has more accurate translations than google, however google has more languages. in my personal opinion, I think Bing is better.
but google is getting paid now... Any other option which can be used..
Yes you are rite its getting paid ?? so nothing can be done...
Both are horrible at Hungarian translations, so I'll name that language as the holy grail to crack. Not really fluent in any other languages enough to comment seriously, so they're both about equal I would say. And yes...I'll even extend that comment into the SERP results for both search engines as well. Actually, I've noticed cleaner results on Bing as Google is choking on spam lately. Bing still has weak ads though. Getting an ad about toothpaste when you're searching for home improvement is pretty sad. Gotta improve that if they're going to make any money.
in Czech-English translations Bing is way better than Google ;)
Boo-Yow! We are conversing as a world and not a region. Google seems to have the jumpstart on translating engines, but I have had a "BLAST" using Bing's audio pronounciation.
if you' d like to translate a website, use bing. it's much better.
I like bing more then google in arabic>English. Its better, but not that much a diffrence.
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