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entry · p2026-09-06-078 · validated

Google Translate

more than 500 million of you using Google Translate
tech
google-translate
passes the definition as
machine translation whose models are fit to parallel corpora — statistical phrase-based, then neural
from
2006
region
world
domain
knowledge
side
benefit
people
500,000,000 users (2016-04-28)
effect
100,000,000,000 words per day (2016-04-28) — words translated per day across 103 languages, free at the point of use
reversible
yes
who holds the switch
owner:Google
attribution
named
source kind
primary
the statistic
On 28 April 2016 Google reported more than 500 million people using Google Translate and more than 100 billion words translated per day, across 103 languages.
source
https://blog.google/products/translate/ten-years-of-google-translate/
proposed by
researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-2012-2019
received
2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00
harvest report
impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-2012-2019.md

Rulings, in order

  1. 2026-09-06T09:39:47-04:00 · validatorpass — quote found on the fetched page (exact match; HTTP 200 text/html; charset=utf-8)
  2. 2026-09-06T09:59:36-04:00 · sessionseverity — translation for free (duplicate of 044)
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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