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by amitheonlyone 1148 days ago
I am experiencing an issue where if you click a word to get translation, a new Google search with 'translate "war" to english' opens. The problem is that it doesn't try to translate from German. Instead it translates the English word 'war' to Latin for some reason. I think a better search keyword is 'translate "war" from german to english'
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Experiencing the same issue. Google is falling apart. It's choosing English as the source language with queries like this, and destination is any language which you may have used recently with translate.

A note to the OP:

translate "Fischerboote" to english - doesn't work

translate "Fischerboote" from german - works

Yep you are totally right, will make those changes and maybe try to have the translation on the same page! Thanks for the feedback!
I have just improved the word translation so that it doesn't send you to Google as the first option. When you have a chance, let me know what you think :)
You are right, that would be better, I will improve the search query. Also I'll try to have that on the actual page so that it's a better experience. Thanks for the feedback.