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Aug. 21, 2012, 9:54 p.m.
LINK: www.ojr.org  ➚   |   Posted by: Joshua Benton   |   August 21, 2012

At OJR, Robert Hernandez dings The Hartford Courant for using Google Translate to provide a Spanish-language version of its site — which produces the predictable linguistic mixups. Robert suggests a variety of alternatives, all of which would be great, but all of which would also cost something more than the $0 Tribune is paying Google for its services.

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