Why would Google take an obvious and important tool like side by side translation comparison away and then, insult upon injury, make the original text window impossibly small (unlike the previous window that would expand to make comparison easy)? Although the language pairing tool has been improved, it seems very obvious that Google has deliberately made the design changes to discourage use of the translator. With the deliberately crippling new layout, it is impossible to tweak text and re-translate with any degree of ease. Did the translator become so popular and sucked so much bandwidth that this new design has been implemented to curb traffic, rather than actually improve the product? I was thinking that maybe Google's idea was to force users to load large translations as document uploads for whatever reason. But even the invitation to "upload" a document is useless: the translated text of a document upload is stripped of all formatting, resulting in a blob of text that is impossible to paste into a document on the user's computer in the hope of comparing original and translation side by side. What is the wisdom behind all of these new design decisions that have nothing to do with improving the product? Clearly Google must have an agenda that is something other than what a person using translation software on a regular basis would ask for. Or is the translation design team really that lame? I mean Google can seriously enhance maps, email, web searches, news agregation, advertisement targeting, the list goes on forever, well almost. Seriously, what are they thinking?
