George W. Bush - My Fake Diary

Thursday, 30 August 2012

An odd little quirk of Google Translate has transformed mentions of President Barack Obama in online French newspapers such as Le Monde into stories about his predecessor, George W. Bush.

As first discovered by a reader of the irreverent UK tech website The Register, Google's automatic translation service turns mentions of "le président américain" into "Bush" - even now, nearly four years after Obama's election.

Well well…