A recent survey into the three major online translation engines – Google Translate, Microsoft’s Bing Translator and Yahoo! Babelfish – yielded some interesting results.

Reviews from more than 1000 participants found Google Translate to be superior for long text passages, while Bing and Babelfish were competitive for shorter passages, with Bing excelling in German and Italian and Babelfish superior in Chinese.

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