The well-known AltaVista search service has teamed with SYSTRAN Software,
Inc. (discussed in the January 24, 1997 Scout report) to offer this beta
release web page translation service in the language pairs of
English-Spanish, English-French, English-German, English-Portugese, and
English-Italian. Users can search and then simply hit the translate button,
at which time the language options are given. Users may also use the direct
translation page; at present this method is more effective when page
content is cut and pasted directly than when an URL is specified.
Translations, as might be expected, tend to be fairly wooden; nevertheless,
a new era in web searching is upon us. [JS]
http://altavista.digital.com/
http://altavista.digital.com/av/content/pr120997.htm
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/
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