Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
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.
David Bass
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