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Yandex

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Unless you want “Ice Cream in the a*s” use Yandex for Russian MT, or better still a human!

June 4, 2012 By Doug Lawrence 1 Comment

I’m often asked why we need professional translators when Google Translate (for example) is free. The short answer is because Google Translate, and other MT engines, can make mistakes. The picture below, of a mistranslation from a Russian Menu, has been circulating on Facebook. “в асс.” is short for ассортимент or assortment, meaning choice – and has been badly mistranslated.     […]

Filed Under: Machine Translation, Translation Technology, О России и русском языке Tagged With: Bing, Bing Machine Translaton, Google, Google Translate, Russian language, Translation, Yandex, Yandex Translate

Official Google Webmaster Academy Announced

May 24, 2012 By Doug Lawrence Leave a Comment

Google has announced its Webmaster Academy, which I’d recommend to anyone that wants to improve the ‘Google-friendliness’ of their website(s). The Academy “provides practical and easy-to-understand lessons for beginner webmasters to help you improve your site with topics like getting your site in our index, providing search engines with helpful information about your video and image […]

Filed Under: Export Communications Review, International Trade Tagged With: Bing Webmaster tools, Google Webmaster Tools, international websites, meta tags, snippets, Yandex, Yandex Webmaster tools

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