Use Babel Fish to Translate a Foreign Page

One of the other projects that originated in the DEC research labs was the
Babel Fish translation engine. Babel Fish can translate everything from words
and phrases to complete Web pages—all automatically. It’s a pretty cool tool,
and useful, too.
The name Babel Fish comes from Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy, where a special breed of fish—the babel fish—is inserted into one’s
ear to translate all manner of intergalactic languages.
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Babel Fish translation technology is included as part of the AltaVista search site
in two different areas.
If you find a non-English page in your AltaVista search results, you can use
Babel Fish to translate the entire page. Just click the Translate link next to the
page’s listing and you’ll see an automatically translated version of the page in
question.
You can also access and use Babel Fish manually to translate blocks of text. Just
click the Translate link in the Tools section of the AltaVista home page, or go
directly to babelfish.altavista.com. When the Babel Fish Translation page
appears, enter the text in the Translate a Block of Text box, select the type of
translation you want from the list, and then click the Translate button.

The Babel Fish Translation page can also be used to translate entire Web pages.
Enter the Web page URL in the Translate a Web Page box, select the type of
translation you want from the list, and then click the Translate button.