Yahoo! Gives Babel Fish a New Fish Tank

By Digital Trends Staff April 27, 2006

One of the oldest Web language translation tools got a fresh coat of paint yesterday as Yahoo! announced they were taking the old Alta Vista Babel Fish site and debuting it across their properties worldwide as Yahoo! Babel Fish. Alta Vista is owned by Yahoo! as a result of their acquisition of Overture back in 2003.

Yahoo! Babel Fish, said the online portal via their corporate blog, allows users to freely translate text or web pages across any choice of 38 language pairs. Yahoo! has added to the basic functionality of Babel Fish by adding two more language pair choices (Simplified Chinese into Traditional Chinese, and Traditional Chinese into Simplified Chinese), a â€œsearch translator betaâ€ in Germany and France which allows users to â€œtranslate queries and search for web pages, images, and videos in multiple languages simultaneouslyâ€ and tighter integration into Yahoo! services such their toolbar and search.

Online translation has long been a popular Web tool. Yahoo! Babel Fish’s chief competition is Google’s Translator page.

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