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Translation studies research the cognitive and linguistic processes inherent in the reproduction of one language into another. To do so, they require the thorough observation of translation examples. Since the corpus, as a linguistic resource, contains many translation examples, researchers refer to a comparable or parallel corpus in order to clarify the principles of translation. However, the traditional corpora have some disadvantages because of their size and textual varieties. The Web as corpus is a new concept. It employs the Web as a collection of machine-readable and searchable authentic text. While such web pages are not a translation text in a strict sense, they can compensate for some of the defects of traditional corpora through their great number, their various languages and plentiful language cases, much of which cannot be found in small corpora. From this point of view, the Web as corpus, as a real-life language resource, is able to play a major role in the field of linguistics and translation studies.