incrediBILL
msg:4539393 | 11:07 pm on Jan 25, 2013 (gmt 0) |
| Does anyone hereabouts read Japanese? |
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Chromes does, Google translate does, and there's some FF add-ons that add translation to FF so I'd try one of those. I use them daily, they work great :)
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keyplyr
msg:4539407 | 1:07 am on Jan 26, 2013 (gmt 0) |
I get a small, but measurable amount of traffic from them, mostly mobile (as the name implies) but non-mobile as well.
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lucy24
msg:4539491 | 1:50 pm on Jan 26, 2013 (gmt 0) |
| I use them daily, they work great |
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How do you know? Have you checked them repeatedly against languages you know well? That goes double for non-Indo-European languages where they can't simply go word-for-word. Look only at Google In Your Language to see the level of cluelessness they're working with.
I'm prepared to take g###'s word for it that such-and-such Russian word means "rat", because it fits what I find in logs. But in general I wouldn't trust a machine translation unless I had some independent evidence that they're reliable.
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dstiles
msg:4539569 | 10:36 pm on Jan 26, 2013 (gmt 0) |
I've allowed Japanese search engine ichiro for several years. At some point I found an English version of their bot text.
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lucy24
msg:4539579 | 12:12 am on Jan 27, 2013 (gmt 0) |
| At some point I found an English version of their bot text. |
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I know the feeling. I once found the English version of the toscrawler's text-- but it definitely wasn't done by clicking a flag icon on the page referenced in their UA :)
They seem to be harmless anyway, so I've added them to the Ignore list.
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keyplyr
msg:4539589 | 4:01 am on Jan 27, 2013 (gmt 0) |
They seem to be harmless anyway, so I've added them to the Ignore list. |
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It's what's done with the data after they sell it I worry about.
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incrediBILL
msg:4539596 | 7:50 am on Jan 27, 2013 (gmt 0) |
| How do you know? Have you checked them repeatedly against languages you know well? |
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They display English that I can read vs. symbols I can't comprehend, so that's pretty good IMO. Translations are often grammatically poor but you get the basic information which is all I need to figure out what the bot is all about.
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