Google will have a Universal Translator in a Few Years Time
Google’s head of translation, Franz Och, has said in an interview with the Daily Mail that “speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years’ time”.
There is already a foray of online translation programs on the web, with some being better than others. They can be useful when emailing or writing letters to people in different countries. If Google comes out with the technology that you install on your mobile and it can translate different languages on the fly, then that could mean great opportunity for businesses and consumers.
This would also bring to life StarTrek universal translator, but I guess that the universal translator is a technology that we will not see any time soon but is inevitable in that our technological progress will get us there.
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Google Suggests – The Weird Results
Google Suggests is a when Google automatically suggests the rest of what you might type in the search box when you are about to search for something.
Here are some weird suggestions…
When you type ‘i like to’ you get:
The first suggestion is ‘i like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur’. Look at the others: ‘i like to think of jesus as a mischievous badger’, ‘i like to think of jesus in a tuxedo shirt’.
When you type ‘god is’ you get:
The first suggestion is ‘god is great beer is good’, what the hell! ‘god is an astronaut’???
When you type ‘fly’ you get:
‘flying spaghetti monster’ is actually a church (Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster).
When you type ‘bad th’ you get:
‘bad things about obama’ -them journalists, I tell you!
When you type ‘ant f’ you get:
Now why would you want to know about ‘chernobyl ant fishing’ chernobyl ants would be freaky because of the chernobyl nuclear accident that occured there. This probably explains why you need to fish for them!
When you type ‘duck f’ you get:
‘duck fart’? What does ‘duck fart recipe’ look like -what would it taste like?
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