Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day

Here's a fun little feature if you've developed a website and want people from other countries to be able to understand it, but don't want to spend the effort to actually internationalize your site: add a Babel Fish Translation module! There are two options available: a static translation box that allows users to input a phrase and tosses them (and the translation) to a standard Babel Fish page, and a page translation module that does the entire page in one go. The latter strikes me as the more useful of the two, unless you happen to be running a site about language-to-language translation (versus a site that needs language-to-language translation).

There's also an AltaVista version available, which has pretty flags! You would be fresh out of luck if you could not identify the countries, but if that's the case, you probably won't need that language anyway.

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