Google: Barack Obama is ‘very funny person’

June 17th, 2008

If you go to Google translator and translate “simpaticone” (very funny person) from Italian into English, the result is “Barack Obama”.

I guess it’s to do with the fact Google uses statistical machine translation. Translation Googlebomb anyone?

Via Google Blogoscoped.

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