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Now Reddit results are translated as well in Google, Kagi, so you think you have found a relevant response in your language, but it's just a machine translation from an English post.

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Leads to foreign-language posts on English-speaking small subreddits as well. I see plenty of Portugese, Spanish, Italian and German in communities that barely have enough traffic to debate in a single language.

But nobody pays to get answers, so it's alright.

At least for Kagi they seem to working on solution[0]. But Reddit seems to be fighting back by translating server side so it's no longer detectable.

[0] https://kagifeedback.org/d/5212-low-quality-translated-reddi...

Thanks for the link, good to know. Gives me a fuzzy feeling to pay for a search engine whose devs you can actually interact with and are actually working on improving their product.

I've been noticing the same, this completely breaks searching for reddit results for me

Try "Reddit Untranslate" addon.

I'm a bit fed up with having to use a million plugins to make the web usable.

You can filter them out by adding this operator to the query:

    -inurl:?tl=

duckduckgo seems to do it as well

Yep, this is coming from Reddit itself. It's using different URLs, and they seem to be making an effort to SEO-rank those translations.

It's interesting that the quality is so low. You can do very good translations for many languages today even with fairly cheap LMs, but for some reason (cost?) automated translation online seems to be still mostly at Google Translate level.

its impressive how poor the end result turnout, when zero effort want to be spent

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