Google translated Russia as "Mordor" due to a failure in the algorithms

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Google explained to the Russian service Bi-bi-si that the online translator Google Translate began to translate in a peculiar way certain words and phrases from Ukrainian into Russian because of a failure in the algorithms.

Earlier it was reported that the surname of the head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov began to be translated as “Sad Horse”, and the phrase “Russian Federation” - as “Mordor” (the habitat of Sauron, the main antagonist in the “Lord of the Rings” series by the English writer John Tolkien).

The day before, some Ukrainian media and bloggers also reported that the word “Russians” began to be translated in Google Translate as “occupiers,” but bbcrussian.com did not receive such a result when using the service.

The press service of the Russian representative office of Google, the Russian service of BBC explained that such search results are related to failures in the automatic algorithms that the translator uses.

“Automatic translation is a very complex system because the meaning of words depends on the context in which they are used. Therefore, there are errors and incorrect translations, which we try to correct as quickly as possible as soon as we learn about them,” the press service said in a statement.

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