Do you speak German, French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish?
 

If so, we have launched a new program that includes Google Translator, and I would be interested in knowing just how accurate it really is.

German
Spanish
French
Italian
Portuguese

Is it close, not so close, or dead balls on?

barely gets worse :)

The French one is horrible :2 cents: I would say not so close..

Okay, what about keywords for the French reading search engines?

Online automatic translation just doesn't cut it yet.

I dont speak any of those languages.

... little bit German and I think it's a strange language. But I am not an expert :-/

I agree . . . . I guess I was hoping that Google would translate it good enough for their bots though.

I can confirm the french version sucks ass

so does the German

again, are the keywords right for the German reading bots?

I will have my wife take a look at the spanish one. She also might be able to help with the Italian, and if you have russian.

They all suck balls :1orglaugh

Go back to taking pics for JFK, it seems to be all you are good at :1orglaugh

Regards,

Lee

christ the german version sucks ass baddog - the site is good, and I'll use it like we talked about. The site will still pull germans, since the keywords are pretty good

no, they are worthless and the rest I was reading is also almost wothless.

I disagree on that one :pimp

hi, i have not yet gone in and used the tools -- but i just wanted to give you my first reaction to the idea...

http://www.strangemilitary.com/image...ent/104722.jpg

i think the expression is "da bomb" -- :thumbsup

2HP

As long as I am German, I won´t :D those Keywords are almost the same as the engl. ones. So he will not get as much germans as he could with this stuff. Lots of the words are also mixed and they end up in a worthless chaos. Just my 2 cents :winkwink:

Well, translations are a pretty low priority right now. It is Google's tool, so hopefully it is good enough for them for the time being.

We will try to find a better translator when we get the other features added.

Googlebot is already visiting the site, so must make it comfortable enough to hang out. :)

Portuguese is pretty bad as well. Of course you can get the picture, but its messy.

Thank, Jack. We are pretty excited about this. Really did not expect to see Google visiting so soon.

The Spanish version is really bad also.

http://dict.leo.org is the best german translation/dictionary site i know of.

the Spanish one is horrible
Where it says " El Paso De los Cuadros Del Sexo Ofrece Porn Libre Para La Vida"
it should read: "el pase de las fotos de sexo ofrece porno gratis para toda la vida"

(My wife says so, and she's Cuban, and very educated, so she knows what she's talking about)

Spanish and Portuguese translations are shit!

okay, thanks for the input . . . . to be honest, I would have been surprised if it was balls on. Guess our disclaimer was good idea :)

Spanish and Portugese versions are muddy and confusing.

you are a very patient and mellow-minded man -- :winkwink: -- if it were ME suffering the above-in-evidence degree of opaqueness, i think i would scream -- so, i'm glad it's you here, and not me -- :thumbsup

2HP

i speak english and dutch

As mentioned before...

The german one sucks...

I would be surprised if you'd get any relevant rankings with those "keywords" if you can even call em that...

My :2 cents:

Take care,
Steve

I can be a spanish translator if you need one :)

French is horrible

Thanks anyway, but there is no way I am going to hand translate every press release that comes thru. :1orglaugh

For someone who is stranger to it, yes.

Sorry i dont speak them but heres a bump

LOL! The portuguese is horrible.

http://www.tubythumbs.com/RAMONGUES/feeling.jpg
Spanish is HORRIBLE...

I agree, it sucks big time ! I would not read it..

The portuguese version is a joke (sorry no offense)

One more time:


. . . . but thanks . . . I get the idea. :)

Hast du deine hausaufgaben schon gemacht?

:)

:pimp

Baddog, Not sure what the engine is on google but I use babblefish linked on av.com. The main issue I get for translation there is it is not geared to adult. Ass = donkey and not butt. Most slang like tits or blowjob gets skipped or destroyed.

tried to edit this in but missed it.

Example from your portuguese page:

A passagem dos retratos do sexo tem sobre 7.000 locais do porn da qualidade elevada em mais de 40 categorias diferentes, incluindo: Amador, anal, cum o tiro, o Fetish, o gay, Hardcore, Interracial, lesbian, filmes, Pornstar, histórias e teens (18+).

This is the case with all the translations (at least the ones I can read - french, spanish & italian) which is also why I think that a standard translation tool would not work unless the actual word in the English language is 'adult' and only has one meaning - which I don't think there are any. To pull off what he wants to do well - he'd need an adult themed translator where the first translation would be the slang or adult term for each word by default & if none exist, then it would go to the proper english meaning translated into the foreign language.

yeah, that is always going to be a problem unless someone wants to build a script that knows porn slang . . . come to think of it, I seem to recall someone hitting me up a while ago about a script that did that . . . wonder if I can remember who it was, and if it really worked . . . . time to investigate