Babel Fish comes to Yahoo!
Yahoo! has finally added the translating facility to their range of existing web services. The company has added Babel Fish to their own network. Yahoo! gained access to Babel Fish when they acquired AltaVista search engine quite sometime ago.
AltaVista named this technology after the Babel fish that appeared in Douglas Adams’ popular novel “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxyâ€. It has gained quite some popularity and was one of the most used services of its kind before Google appeared on the horizon with their own Google Translation service.
Yahoo’s Babel Fish offers 38 language-translation combinations including some of the most popular languages around the world. The company added two new languages to the range with users now able to convert text from simplified Chinese into traditional Chinese, and vice versa.
The search engine company has also enhanced its search-translator application. This is for now only available in Germany and in France. It enables the web user to translate queries and search for Web pages, images, and videos in multiple languages simultaneously.
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