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(Unverified)Nov 12th 2007 7:34AM

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It's not like there are just two of them, Google and SYSTRAN.

The choice is much bigger, and the results are frequently better (e.g., IBM's WTS, or Promt), but most of the higher end ones are corporation oriented.

But yes, pure statistical MT is definitely not the way to go; despite the popular opinion, NIST's 2006 evaluation results do not reflect the quality accurately:

http://forum.digitalsonata.com/forums/thread/32.aspx

One thing which the result is a mysterious figure which no one sees, such as PageRank, and another is outputting human language, which requires much higher accuracy.

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