Why Google doesn't love HTC

I think Google doesn’t love HTC despite of many efforts from HTC side to support Android OS with their new and nice mobile phones.

Why do I say this?

Well I’ve just discover an interesting thing.

I’m a big fan of Google online solutions (Search Engine, GMail, GTalk and so on …) and I often use Google Translate trying to understand what French or other language websites are selling.

I even have a button in Firefox toolbar to automatically translate any page to English. (The button comes from Google Toolbar.)

Yesterday I was reading a Romanian article (I’m a native Romanian speaker) and I pressed the button for translation.

The effect was impressive because the translation was almost perfect but with a very slightly difference.

So, if you get the fallowing Romanian sentence

“Multe persoane sunt atrase de produsele HTC.”

and try to translate to English using Google Translate you will see a result like this:

“Many people are attracted to Samsung products.”

(You can choose Romanian as the source language or just leave it on “Detect language”.)

Of course you don’t speak Romanian but it’s not so hard to see that in the initial sentence I’m talking about HTC products (”produs” is Romanian version of “product”).

But magically Google translates “HTC products” to “Samsung products“.

That’s strange isn’t it?

I found it funny and I don’t know what’s the answer but I’m just wondering how many brands are replaced by Google with their competitors?

Is this happening only in Google Translate?

I attached a screen capture of my “experiment” just for the record.