Yahoo's Brilliant Babel Fish Makeover

• Translate up to 150 words at a time;
• Run a search based on text Babel Fish translated for you;
• Translate an entire Web page;
• Choose from 38 language combinations for translation - from "traditional Chinese to English" to "Portuguese to French";
• Translate straight from your browser by adding a Babel Fish toolbar button.

I hope the makeover gives Babel Fish, which has been languishing in obscurity for some time, a new lease on life. Even though (or especially because) translation results can sometimes err on the side of the humorous rather than the accurate, Babel Fish is a very handy tool that is pretty good at giving you a rough idea of what foreign language texts say, and can be quite entertaining in the process.

Posted by Nancy Hackett at 1:42 AM GMT