I actually think this update is now worse for at least Japanese -> English. The sentences it produces are now often much more readable, and much more wrong. Wit

I actually think this update is now worse for at least Japanese -> English. The sentences it produces are now often much more readable, and much more wrong. Without some background in the language there is no way for the user to tell; previously where it lacked a match it would produce a translation that made it obvious it wasn't able to grok the meaning, now it seems to 'fill in the blanks' in a way that makes the sentence readable in English regardless. I guess this is much like a non-skilled human translator, but given the assumption that Google knows all this gives a false impression of the accuracy. It would be really helpful I think if Google Translate would provide some kind of confidence level on its accuracy for a translation - a bar graph, stars, something...