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As a developer I kind of get it: "we have all this machinery so we won't compromise to use the simple route even if it makes sense short-term; let's improve our
by pawelk 9y ago
As a developer I kind of get it: "we have all this machinery so we won't compromise to use the simple route even if it makes sense short-term; let's improve our product instead". But as a user I'd expect Google to be at least as good as dictionary lookup from two decades ago, and do PL -> RU or PL -> DE instead of PL -> EN -> RU, PL -> EN -> DE when I type in a single word.
- umanwizard 9y agoGoogle Translate simply isn’t meant to be used for dictionary lookup, though. If you use it for that then you’re using the wrong tool. This is like complaining that Word isn’t as good as vi, which is decades old, for text editing. Sure they could bolt a text editor onto Word if they wanted to, but why bother? That’s not what people are looking for when they use the product. And if that’s what you want, there are many other choices that are much better.