Everything about Babel Fish Website totally explained
Babel Fish is a
web-based application developed by
AltaVista (part of
Yahoo! since
May 9,
2008) in which
machine translates text or web pages from one of several languages into another. It takes its name from the
Babel fish, a fictional animal used for instantaneous
language translation in
Douglas Adams's series
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The word Babel is a borrowed reference to the
biblical account of the city of
Babel and the various languages which were said to have arisen there.
The translation technology for Babel Fish is provided by
SYSTRAN, whose technology also powers a number of other sites and portals.
It can translate among
English,
Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese,
Dutch,
French,
German,
Greek,
Italian,
Japanese,
Korean,
Portuguese,
Russian, and
Spanish.
The service makes no claim to produce a perfect translation: the best that's claimed is that it can show the gist of a page or text. Translations between European languages can be passable, but attempting to translate East Asian Languages to English often produces gibberish. A number of humour sites have sprung up that use the Babel Fish service to translate back and forth between one or more languages (a so-called
round-trip translation).
After a long sojourn at babelfish.altavista.com, the site was moved in May 2008 to babelfish.yahoo.com.
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