Yahoo! Babel Fish
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Babel Fish
- Genres: Rock
Biography
The Norwegian pop group Babel Fish mix chamber pop arrangements with the solid songcraft of pop singer/songwriters like Michael Penn, Jason Falkner, and Owsley. Their self-titled 1999 debut was shelved for American release by Atlantic and has not yet appeared in the U.S., except as an import. ~ Steve Huey, RoviWikipedia on Answers.com:
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Yahoo! Babel Fish
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| URL | babelfish.yahoo.com |
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| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Translation service |
| Owner | Yahoo |
| Created by | AltaVista |
| Current status | Defunct |
Yahoo! Babel Fish was a web-based machine translation application on Yahoo! that translates text or web pages from one of several languages into another. On May 31, 2012, users were redirected to Bing Translator, Microsoft's online machine translation service.[1]
Named after the fictional animal, Babelfish was used for instantaneous language translation in Douglas Adams's series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.[2] The fish name is a reference to the biblical account of the city of Babel and the various languages said to have arisen there.
The translation technology for Babel Fish was provided by SYSTRAN, whose technology also powers a number of other sites and portals.
It translates among English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, and Spanish.
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History
Founded and developed by Oscar A Jofre and his team in January 1999,[3] the application was bought by AltaVista in 2003. AltaVista was bought by Yahoo! that same year. The service remained at the URL babelfish.altavista.com until May 9, 2008, when the address changed to babelfish.yahoo.com.[4]
Notes
- ^ "Welcome Yahoo! Babel Fish users!". Bing Translator blog. 2012-05-31. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/translation/archive/2012/05/30/welcoming-yahoo-babel-fish-users.aspx. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
- ^ http://wn.com/Babelfish
- ^ http://www.businessedge.ca/archives/article.cfm/babelfish-on-the-move-3074/
- ^ AltaVista history
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