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Now Reddit results are translated as well in Google, Kagi, so you think you have found a relevant response in your language, but it's just a machine translation

by sph 1y ago

Now Reddit results are translated as well in Google, Kagi, so you think you have found a relevant response in your language, but it's just a machine translation from an English post.

fifnir 1y ago
I've been noticing the same, this completely breaks searching for reddit results for me
- nilslindemann 1y ago
  Try "Reddit Untranslate" addon.
  - reddalo 1y ago
    I'm a bit fed up with having to use a million plugins to make the web usable.
qiine 1y ago
duckduckgo seems to do it as well
- whstl 1y ago
  Yep, this is coming from Reddit itself. It's using different URLs, and they seem to be making an effort to SEO-rank those translations.
  - int_19h 1y ago
    It's interesting that the quality is so low. You can do very good translations for many languages today even with fairly cheap LMs, but for some reason (cost?) automated translation online seems to be still mostly at Google Translate level.
    - qiine 1y ago
      its impressive how poor the end result turnout, when zero effort want to be spent
- deleted 1y ago
  [deleted]
hengheng 1y ago
Leads to foreign-language posts on English-speaking small subreddits as well. I see plenty of Portugese, Spanish, Italian and German in communities that barely have enough traffic to debate in a single language. But nobody pays to get answers, so it's alright.
aequitas 1y ago
At least for Kagi they seem to working on solution[0]. But Reddit seems to be fighting back by translating server side so it's no longer detectable. [0] https://kagifeedback.org/d/5212-low-quality-translated-reddit-results/30 https://kagifeedback.org/d/5212-low-quality-translated-reddi...
- sph 1y ago
  Thanks for the link, good to know. Gives me a fuzzy feeling to pay for a search engine whose devs you can actually interact with and are actually working on improving their product.
xeeeeeeeeeeenu 1y ago
You can filter them out by adding this operator to the query: -inurl:?tl=

by sph 1y ago

Now Reddit results are translated as well in Google, Kagi, so you think you have found a relevant response in your language, but it's just a machine translation from an English post.

fifnir 1y ago

I've been noticing the same, this completely breaks searching for reddit results for me

nilslindemann 1y ago
Try "Reddit Untranslate" addon.
- reddalo 1y ago
  I'm a bit fed up with having to use a million plugins to make the web usable.

qiine 1y ago

duckduckgo seems to do it as well

whstl 1y ago
Yep, this is coming from Reddit itself. It's using different URLs, and they seem to be making an effort to SEO-rank those translations.
- int_19h 1y ago
  It's interesting that the quality is so low. You can do very good translations for many languages today even with fairly cheap LMs, but for some reason (cost?) automated translation online seems to be still mostly at Google Translate level.
  - qiine 1y ago
    its impressive how poor the end result turnout, when zero effort want to be spent
deleted 1y ago
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hengheng 1y ago

Leads to foreign-language posts on English-speaking small subreddits as well. I see plenty of Portugese, Spanish, Italian and German in communities that barely have enough traffic to debate in a single language. But nobody pays to get answers, so it's alright.

aequitas 1y ago

At least for Kagi they seem to working on solution[0]. But Reddit seems to be fighting back by translating server side so it's no longer detectable. [0] https://kagifeedback.org/d/5212-low-quality-translated-reddit-results/30 https://kagifeedback.org/d/5212-low-quality-translated-reddi...

sph 1y ago
Thanks for the link, good to know. Gives me a fuzzy feeling to pay for a search engine whose devs you can actually interact with and are actually working on improving their product.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu 1y ago

You can filter them out by adding this operator to the query: -inurl:?tl=