Not that it’s not cool…

Matt Cutts is, um, happy about Google winning the NIST challenge. Says Matt, World-class machine translation makes me hot.

Actually, I can’t laugh too much. I have to agree that I’m looking forward to the day when machine translation is good enough to make world-wide communication a breeze. It’ll make everything harder for SEOs though. Before you only had to compete with those in your language. When we all read the web in our native tongue, just imagine the duplicate content issues.

Susan Esparza is former managing editor at Bruce Clay Inc., and has written extensively for clients and internal publications. Along with Bruce Clay, she is co-author of the first edition of Search Engine Optimization All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies.

See Susan's author page for links to connect on social media.

Posted by Susan Esparza on August 23rd, 2005 at 10:48 am

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