Google says sorry for translation service offering offensive words

The U.S. web giant Google apologized for its translation tool translating "gay" from English to other languages brings offensive words, according to Media reports on Thursday.

The popular online translation service, which is used by over 500 million people every month, has been offering synonyms like "poof" and "queen" to those translating "gay" from English into Spanish, French, or Portuguese.

More than 50,000 people have signed a petition demanding the Google to remove all anti-gay slurs from Translate.

Google was under pressure to have fixed the software and issued an apology.

"As soon as we were informed that some of our translations for certain terms were serving inappropriate results, we immediately began working to fix the issue." said a Google spokesman.