Yahoo builds bigger, better Babel Fish

Yahoo has launched its Yahoo Babel Fish Web translation site. Users can translate a block of text up to 150 words. They can also conduct a Yahoo Web search based on the translated text or enter a Web address into a "Translate a Web Page" box to convert the page into another language. More information is on the Yahoo Search Blog.

Yahoo acquired Babel Fish when it bought Overture, which, itself, had acquired Babel Fish with the purchase of AltaVista. In Spanish, according to Yahoo Babel Fish, that would read: "Yahoo adquirio los pescados de Babel cuando compro la insinuacion que lo habia adquirido con la compra de AltaVista." And in German, Yahoo Babel Fish says: "Yahoo erwarb Babel Fische, als es Annaherungsversuch kaufte, der es mit dem Erwerb von AltaVista erworben hatte."