The article begins with a concise study of the significance of the translation technology in modern life as well as machine and computer-assisted translation. It then describes the technology accessible to translators and examines the losses and gains of the used tools in computer-assisted translation such as the electronic dictionaries, and specifically Google translate. The paper studies the influence of the online dictionaries on the professional translator with a view to determining the extent translation done using such dictionaries can be accurate. Loss in machine translation is inevitable due to the differences between English and Malay as they are entirely two different languages and not-related language pairs for translation. The online dictionary and translation software cannot replace the human translator and guarantee high-quality translations, despite their efficiency and outlooks. Online dictionaries and other translation means accelerate and facilitate the translation process only by minimizing the expected time for translation. Combination of electronic technologies with comprehensive knowledge of the translator and translation theory may result in a high-quality translation. Translation software and programs nonetheless, will not replace humans even in the future. As mentioned, the main aim of the paper is to investigate the new technologies in machine translation tools to discover the losses and gains in translation of English to Malay by using online dictionaries. Machine translations employing online dictionaries are compared with the translation done by a human translator to analyze the probable errors in machine-translated texts.
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