Why do people continue using online translators?

Either because they are lazy or they don't realize that they are not accurate.

People who speak the language can immediately know when someone used an online translator because 95% of the time it makes absolutely no sense.

Most people just use an online translator on Y!A because they want the 2 points. The worst part is that sometimes the person who asked the question chooses one of them as best answer...

Umm, I think translators are good for one word vocab and short phrases....I also think they are useful for people who are advanced enough in spanish to be able to fix the slight errors. They also usually translate in usted form over tu. But they are in no way useful for translating whole paragraphs or multiple sentences.

Because people are to lazy and since they dont know how to speak acertain language they just go on the translator which also doesnt give correct translation. Stupid internet translation!!

Online translators are mainly used for people who want to learn words and phrases to get by in that language. These are not and should not be used to gain fluency.

Where else can we easily translate stuff into any language we want?

uhm to translate so u can undestand the language, cuz not everyone knows all the languages in the world.

duhhh!?

I think they do it so you end up paying for the real thing.