Google Translate Is Used by 200 Million People Each Day
Google Translate is one of those things that everyone uses and no one thinks about. And by everyone we mean 200 million people who use Translate, in one form or another, each and every day for one billion translations.
The fact that they don't even notice it is not a bad thing necessarily, tools are supposed to get the job done and get out of the way.
Of the 200 million, plenty are using the automated translation feature in Chrome, which has proven very useful especially for those who don't speak English, the most popular language on the web. But that's still a lot of people.
Of course, Translate supports quite a lot more languages, over 70 at the last count. But Google is working on adding more, there are thousands of languages in the world after all.
The big problem is that machine translation, what powers Google Translate, requires data, the more data the better the translation. For languages with little representation online, this data is hard to get.
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