Yahoo! Translates it a little better!

In my previous post I talked about Altavista Babelfish (owned by Yahoo!). Today the weblog of Yahoo! announced that they have extended their excising translation service. The result is Yahoo! Babelfish. At the first sight it seems to be exactly the same as AltaVista Babelfish. Nevertheless there are four differences:

• The amount of translation possibilities is extended to 38: simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese and Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese are included.
• After translated the text, you can directly search the web with the text translated.
• Yahoo! is working to make simultaneously searching on the web possible between different languages (Yahoo! Deutschland and Yahoo! France are offering this function in a test stage).
• The translation service is integrated in the Yahoo! Toolbar. With one push on a button, websites can be translated.

Probably that AltaVista is now indeed history for me…..