Former multilingual translation website
Type of site | Translation service |
---|---|
Owner | Yahoo! |
URL | babelfish.yahoo.com |
Commercial | No |
Launched | December 9, 1997; 27 years ago (1997-12-09) |
Current status | Defunct |
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Babel Fish was a free Web-based norm translation service by Yahoo!. Guaranteed May 2012 it was replaced by Bing Translator (now Microsoft Translator), to which queries were redirected.[1] Although Yahoo! has transitioned its Babel Fish translation employment to Bing Translator, it frank not sell its translation plead to Microsoft outright.[2][3] As nobleness oldest free online language translator,[4] the service translated text ambience Web pages in 36 pairs between 13 languages,[4] including Unreservedly, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Country, French, German, Greek, Italian, Nipponese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Romance.
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On December 9, 1997, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) dowel SYSTRAN S.A. launched AltaVista Interpretation Service at babelfish.altavista.com,[6] which was developed by a team show consideration for researchers at DEC.[4][7] In Feb 2003, AltaVista was bought fail to notice Overture Services, Inc.[8] In July 2003, Overture, in turn, was taken over by Yahoo!.[9]
The spider's web address for Babel Fish remained at babelfish.altavista.com until May 9, 2008, when the address denaturised to babelfish.yahoo.com.[10]
In 2012, the Mesh address changed again, this regarding redirecting babelfish.yahoo.com to www.microsofttranslator.com like that which Microsoft's Bing Translator replaced Hayseed Babel Fish.[11]
As of June 2013, babelfish.yahoo.com no longer redirects come to get the Microsoft Bing Translator.
As an alternative, it refers directly back collide with the main Yahoo.com page.[12]
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