http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/10/china-google-playing-dirty/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:53:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/10/china-google-playing-dirty/comment-page-1/#comment-1114748 Why I’m not afraid of Google at bokane.org Tue, 15 May 2007 04:18:32 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/10/china-google-playing-dirty/#comment-1114748 [...] Sure, Google may be beating up Yahoo and Microsoft and taking their lunch money, and it may be plagiarizing part of its Pinyin IME wordbank from Sogou, and it may be growing and spreading into every industry it can find — but I’m pretty sure that its machine translation systems aren’t going to be putting me out of a job any time soon, high BLEU scores or not. (Once the robot revolution comes, my parsing abilities will make me useful to our benevolent metallic overlords.) [...] [...] Sure, Google may be beating up Yahoo and Microsoft and taking their lunch money, and it may be plagiarizing part of its Pinyin IME wordbank from Sogou, and it may be growing and spreading into every industry it can find — but I’m pretty sure that its machine translation systems aren’t going to be putting me out of a job any time soon, high BLEU scores or not. (Once the robot revolution comes, my parsing abilities will make me useful to our benevolent metallic overlords.) [...]

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