Google Translate provides a billion translations a day for 200 million users, the company revealed here Friday at its Google I/O show for developers.
Google doesn’t often share details about the scale on which it operates, but Josh Estelle, leader for Google Translate’s front-end and mobile engineering, had a few statistics to share about the service during a talk about it.
Estelle, who’s worked on Google Translate for seven years, also said 92 percent of the usage is from people outside the United States. The Internet is famously English-centric, but it’s expanding gradually to other languages, helped in part by technological change such as right-to-left text support in browsers, and Web addresses that can be written in non-Roman alphabets. More.
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