Machine translation is an important tool in establishing successful communication. There is an increasing number of different software available for users, with higher and higher percentage of accuracy as well as speed, which translate terms, phrases or whole paragraphs from one language into another.
Now online machine translation gives new possibilities to wider masses of users to use machine translation on an easy and free way. However, most users neglect the fact that those translations are often of low quality. There is increasing number of users who rely on machine translation, and go public with their translation without any verification or making sure that it is correct and clear. Such translation in some circumstances can be considered useless, and sometimes even risky.

With the advent of Internet era, new challenges and opportunities for online machine translation are coming. This paper deals with machine translation in the Internet era, and includes a brief examination of user's experience in online machine translation, based on student's population.