Babel Fish was launched in 1997 as AltaVista Translation Service
Name derived from Douglas Adams's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Original website redirects to Yahoo homepage
Technical Features
Offered free online translation between 36 language pairs
Supported both text and webpage translations
Maintained 500,000 translation requests daily
Featured clean blue and white interface with primary blue box
Ownership Changes
Acquired by Overture Services in 2003
Later taken over by Yahoo
Domain name changed to babelfish.yahoo.com in 2008
Eventually replaced by Microsoft Bing Translator
Legacy
Considered predecessor to Google Translate
Pioneered machine translation technology
Helped shape modern translation tools like Google Translate
Remains influential despite being no longer functional
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