The Web as dictionary/Das Internet als Wörterbuch

Linguee is a site that is collecting a bilingual corpus of texts on the internet. The idea is that you enter a German word and the site returns pairs of sentences containing that word in German and English. I looked for a recent problem, Evidenzfall. It wasn't there (unsurprisingly - the site is new). I then looked for Evidenz. IMO Evidenz is not always evidence, but can have to do with things being plain or manifest. I translated Evidenzfall as case of a plainly void administrative act, and I came to this conclusion mainly with the help of German online definitions and in particular a textbook on German administrative law. The hits I get with Linguee almost exclusively have Evidenz, bold, in the German half and evidence, bold, in the English half. 'More results...' produced more examples, without bold. I didn't see any examples from administrative law. One result was given three stars out of three (most had two): Die Evidenz, dass auch Pflanzen Stammzellen haben müssen The evidence that plants also have stem cells Note, incidentally, that the translation omitted 'müssen' - probably OK here. But one obviously can't rely on translations being good - when one searches the Web, it is more in a spirit of hope. Certainly some of the translations were not…