Alta Vista -- full-text translation

[Charles P. Hobbs]

I've used it on a few pages. Not too shabby for machine translation,
although certain idiomatic expressions don't translate well (of course).
But it does seem to point you in the right direction.

I'd like to see them add Russian, Chinese and Japanese in the near future
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Shirl Kennedy wrote:

> Not sure how long this has been available, but it's pretty neat...
> 
> Systran, which makes translation software, apparently has partnered with
> Altavista to provide real-time translation of Web pages.  You type in your
> URL or click the "translate" button after a search, and your page is
> translated into the language of your choice from among:  Spanish, French,
> Italian, German, Portugese or English.
> 
> Server seems a bit sluggish; this is probably the shakedown cruise phase...
> http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/
> 
> Shirl Kennedy
> Internet Waves columnist
> Information Today
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