Re:Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech G...
by visarga on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @04:20PM
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> The only Google service I use regularly is Google Translate, because there really is no comparison.
There is one, since yesterday. Try https://www.deepl.com/translator
Re:Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech G...
by kruczek on Thursday August 31, 2017 @05:26AM
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Impressive. I tried it on a couple comments in the thread as well as paragraphs from news sources, translating English<->Polish and back, and it indeed produces much more readable (I might even say: natural) translations, than Google Translate.
Re:Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech G...
by eridius on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @06:55PM
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Unfortunately that appears to only support western European languages.
Re:Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech G...
by brepl on Thursday August 31, 2017 @07:39AM
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It only supports _some_ western European languages.
Re:Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech G...
by mhermher on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @12:54PM
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And YouTube, where the competition is not even close as far as content. It's really the one irreplaceable Google product.
Re:Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech G...
by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @05:58PM
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Like the Play Store/Android. In a space where content is king, monopolies win big.
FWIW, YouTube is actually the only Google product I allow to store my history and recommend me stuff, because it's the only place I find it actually helpful or valuable, and the privacy risk of that data is of low value to me.
With Gmail, I just forward my mail to my Outlook.com account, and I switched my email address on as many sites as I could to use my Outlook.com email address. Works just fine.
Office Online with OneDrive is a fantastic product. Sure it costs money, but if you're not paying for a product, you're not "locked in". Download your docs in Office format and save them to OneDrive, done.
I actually switched to Bing Maps a long time prior to this because Google Maps has such poor performance on every computer I use it on. Google Maps has the far superior place search, but Bing Maps works better as an actual map in my experience.
The only Google service I use regularly is Google Translate, because there really is no comparison.