Stan Beer
Monday, 01 May 2006 04:11
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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.