A super interesting blog post by Greg Linden details a Googler keynote address that presents some staggering statistics.
Staggering statistic #1: Google uses 1,000 machines per search query. This is what makes Google fast.
Staggering statistic #2: Google crawls the Web—all of it, what used to take months—in nearly real time.
Staggering statistic #3: Google’s machine translation models use a million lookups and multi terabytes to translate one sentence
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Google’s machine tranlation is pretty awesome by design shooting up there server with billions of words of text, both monolingual text in the target language, and aligned text consisting of examples of human translations between the languages. And then applying a statistical learning techniques to build a translation model.