<story><title>Google’s top search result is Google</title><url>https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-search-results-prioritize-google-products-over-competitors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Slartie</author><text>Actually, on text translations, DeepL nowadays outclasses Google Translate IMHO. The only downside is that they don&amp;#x27;t appear to offer some kind of transparent website translate feature (&amp;quot;put a URL in and it translates the entire site, with layout kept intact&amp;quot;), at least not for free. But if I happen to have a paragraph or so in some foreign language and want that translated to some language I can understand, DeepL has become my first stop due to its consistently higher result quality.</text></item><item><author>chimen</author><text>Many of them save me extra clicks which is convenient. Google translate, maps and search has no competitors that even come close in terms of quality. I will get mad when those products have better alternatives but it&amp;#x27;s not the case. Build better alternatives and I&amp;#x27;m on board. In the end, Google is a business - I would promote my own shit on the first vertical as well.
One thing that pisses me off is the AMP ordeal but, other than that, I extract value from Google.&lt;p&gt;I am on Google to find results to my questions - I want the quickest exit and that&amp;#x27;s what they provide. If they fail to do that they back down trust me, these guys watch &amp;quot;the numbers&amp;quot; carefully.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vinay427</author><text>I would be prepared to switch over completely for the languages they support if DeepL didn&amp;#x27;t insert their advertisement at the bottom of some results (I&amp;#x27;ve had this accidentally included in an email before), and if they had a mobile app with a text selection action on Android to highlight text and see a popup with the translation. As it is, I use it most of the time but still rely on Google Translate being more accessible. Obviously DeepL is newer, so these limitations are understandable.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google’s top search result is Google</title><url>https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-search-results-prioritize-google-products-over-competitors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Slartie</author><text>Actually, on text translations, DeepL nowadays outclasses Google Translate IMHO. The only downside is that they don&amp;#x27;t appear to offer some kind of transparent website translate feature (&amp;quot;put a URL in and it translates the entire site, with layout kept intact&amp;quot;), at least not for free. But if I happen to have a paragraph or so in some foreign language and want that translated to some language I can understand, DeepL has become my first stop due to its consistently higher result quality.</text></item><item><author>chimen</author><text>Many of them save me extra clicks which is convenient. Google translate, maps and search has no competitors that even come close in terms of quality. I will get mad when those products have better alternatives but it&amp;#x27;s not the case. Build better alternatives and I&amp;#x27;m on board. In the end, Google is a business - I would promote my own shit on the first vertical as well.
One thing that pisses me off is the AMP ordeal but, other than that, I extract value from Google.&lt;p&gt;I am on Google to find results to my questions - I want the quickest exit and that&amp;#x27;s what they provide. If they fail to do that they back down trust me, these guys watch &amp;quot;the numbers&amp;quot; carefully.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobsoap</author><text>Same here, I&amp;#x27;ve been consistently surprised at how much better (and more natural&amp;#x2F;accurate) deepl is than google at translating, especially for sentences and paragraphs.</text></comment>