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Babel Fish looks a winner for Yahoo

Your IT - Home IT

A legacy of all the original search engine portals is the great technologies they have spawned. A perfect example is Babel Fish a web page language translator initially created by Alta Vista and now picked up by Yahoo.

Quite simply, Babel Fish is an amazing free web service that allows you translate a block of text of up to 150 words at a time or an entire web page, with a choice of 38 language pairs. It's fast; it's accurate and I wish I had known about it six months ago when a friend gave me a spate of letters she had received from the German Government.

Apparently this tool has been available for about 8 years but, until picked up by Yahoo, has been an unintentioanlly welk kept secret.

To sample the service simply visit http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ and, if you need the service regularly, you can download it with the Yahoo Mozilla toolbar.

We say Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft take note, give us more web services like this please.