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[Oct 22, 2004] If you enter
Google in Galician (a language of Spain, Europe)
and try to find any word without any results (for instance,
'aaaaiuyq'), you
bump into this message:
"A súa procura de 'aaaaiuyq' non atopou documentos.
Google, empresa millonaria, EXPLOTA TRADUTORES VOLUNTARIOS para
gañar máis diñeiro."
("Your search 'aaaaiuyq' did not match any documents. Google,
millionaire company, EXPLOITS VOLUNTARY TRANSLATORS to earn more money").
The policy followed by Google since it started was translating most of
their local versions (especially those with not-extended languages) through
a group of volunteers who translate original sentences --in English-- into
their languages. If you access
this webpage and log in
pointing the languages you write correctly,
Google sends you some sentences to be translated according to search
engine's needs.
Since Google is one of the biggest tech firms in the world, there are some
critics of this policy. This claiming message may be written by the person
who Google designated to translate into Galician the sentence that appears
when you don't get any results.
You have a screenshot in
this link.
