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Make babelfish useful

picture of menu in action -> after

Ever since altavista got rid of the babelfish button I've wanted it back.

Well here's a much better solution just stick the the following incantation into your mozilla or IE bookmarks, it gives you a dropdown menu for translating the current page into english for a cornucopia of other tounges.

<DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1033056403" LAST_MODIFIED="1033056445" ID="NC:BookmarksRoot#$12db6435">Babelfish</H3>
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    <DT><A HREF="javascript: window.top.location = %22http://babel.altavista.com/tr?lin=zh&lout=en&url=%22 + escape(window.top.location) " ADD_DATE="1030888217" LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1">Chinese->English</A>
    <DT><A HREF="javascript: window.top.location = %22http://babel.altavista.com/tr?lin=fr&lout=en&url=%22 + escape(window.top.location) " ADD_DATE="1030888217" LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1">French->English</A>
    <DT><A HREF="javascript: window.top.location = %22http://babel.altavista.com/tr?lin=de&lout=en&url=%22 + escape(window.top.location) " ADD_DATE="1030888217" LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1">German->English</A>
    <DT><A HREF="javascript: window.top.location = %22http://babel.altavista.com/tr?lin=it&lout=en&url=%22 + escape(window.top.location) " ADD_DATE="1030888217" LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1">Italian->English</A>
    <DT><A HREF="javascript: window.top.location = %22http://babel.altavista.com/tr?lin=ja&lout=en&url=%22 + escape(window.top.location) " ADD_DATE="1030888217" LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1">Japanese->English</A>
    <DT><A HREF="javascript: window.top.location = %22http://babel.altavista.com/tr?lin=ko&lout=en&url=%22 + escape(window.top.location) " ADD_DATE="1030888217" LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1">Korean->English</A>
    <DT><A HREF="javascript: window.top.location = %22http://babel.altavista.com/tr?lin=pt&lout=en&url=%22 + escape(window.top.location) " ADD_DATE="1030888217" LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1">Portuguese->English</A>
    <DT><A HREF="javascript: window.top.location = %22http://babel.altavista.com/tr?lin=ru&lout=en&url=%22 + escape(window.top.location) " ADD_DATE="1030888217" LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1">Russian->English</A>
    <DT><A HREF="javascript: window.top.location = %22http://babel.altavista.com/tr?lin=es&lout=en&url=%22 + escape(window.top.location) " ADD_DATE="1030888217" LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1">Spanish->English</A>
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You can either type that lot in or better download it
New! without the anoying framedownload it