Translating with AltaVista
Gradually most people will have forgotten AltaVista by now. For those people, I will fresh up their memory. AltaVista was in the middle of the 90’ the most popular and most used search engine on the World Wide Web. Around 2000 AltaVista lost his power, because Google became stronger and stronger. In 2003 Overture acquired AltaVista. In the same year Yahoo! on his turn acquired Overture.
Despite AltaVista is hardly used anymore, I have found that one functionality can still be of use.
Occasionally I come across (parts of) English or other foreign articles which I have difficulties with to translate. Sometimes this irritates me a little, till I encountered Altavista Babelfish. This service provides people the opportunity to translate sentences, parts of text and even entire web pages to English, Dutch, French and other languages. Sometimes the quality of the translated text leaves to be desired. But quite often it helps me to understand foreign text better. This translation service is also available via de search service of Yahoo!.
Google offers also translation functionality. For me a big disadvantage is that the Dutch language isn’t included. That’s why AltaVista still isn’t entirely history for me.
Despite AltaVista is hardly used anymore, I have found that one functionality can still be of use.
Occasionally I come across (parts of) English or other foreign articles which I have difficulties with to translate. Sometimes this irritates me a little, till I encountered Altavista Babelfish. This service provides people the opportunity to translate sentences, parts of text and even entire web pages to English, Dutch, French and other languages. Sometimes the quality of the translated text leaves to be desired. But quite often it helps me to understand foreign text better. This translation service is also available via de search service of Yahoo!.
Google offers also translation functionality. For me a big disadvantage is that the Dutch language isn’t included. That’s why AltaVista still isn’t entirely history for me.
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