Linguee uses specialized webcrawlers to search the Internet for appropriate bilingual texts and to divide them into parallel sentences.

In addition to serving the bilingual Web, Patent translated texts as well as the EU Parliament protocols and laws of the European Union (EUR-Lex) as sources.

In addition to officially translated text from EU sources, its French language service relies on translated texts from Canadian government documents, websites, and transcripts, along with Canadian national institutions and organisations which often provide bilingual services.

The concept behind it was conceived in the fall of 2007 by former Google employee Gereon Frahling and developed in the following year along with Leonard Fink.

[2] The business idea was recognized in 2008 with the main prize of a competition founded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.