Re:Comparision (Score 2, Informative)

That's a very limited look at what Google is doing... like their machine translation group scored first at NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation Official Results.

The MT-05 evaluation consisted of two tasks. Each task required performing translation from a given source language into the target language. The source languages were Arabic and Chinese, and the target language was English.

And this is probably just a little fraction of their research. Same would probably go for Microsoft Research...