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Also, don't underestimate taking away revenue sources from your competitors. If your competitor competes with you at A, but makes money at B, then taking away that B revenue stream affects their ability to compete with you at A as well.


I understand the comment, but how does that apply to Google Translate specifically?


There's Yandex which operates Russia's largest search engine (65% market share) which also runs Yandex Translate [0]. There's also Microsoft Translator [1], and Microsoft owns Bing, though MS Translator is a little different than Google Translate / Yandex Translate.

[0] https://translate.yandex.com/

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/translator/home.aspx


Google Translate being free doesn't "take revenue away" from another free service, though. Plus I bet Google's precedes those other two.




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