Duolingo Teaches You A Language While Helping Translate The Web (And Could Be Google?s Next Purchase)

Luis von Ahn has a pretty impressive track record when it comes to Google acquiring his companies. Not many entrepreneurs can count two exits to the search giant. Google acquired von Ahn's ESP Game, which crowdsourced people to look at images and label them to improve image search, in 2005 and renamed it Google Image Labeler. In 2009, Google bought von Ahn's Captcha startup Recaptcha as well. And now, von Ahn's latest project, Duolingo, is finally launching in private beta. von Ahn explains to me that computer language translation is a broken system. It can be very expensive to pay for quality professional translators to translate web applications and pages on a large scale. That's the problem Duolingo is trying to solve.

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