Comments on: Say “Hello” to my little friend http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:25:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mabel Evelyn http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-2879 Mabel Evelyn Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:43:31 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/#comment-2879 Jolly good but have you tried translating the translation back into English? Very funny sometimes. Jolly good but have you tried translating the translation back into English? Very funny sometimes.

]]> By: nellie http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-2878 nellie Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:54:09 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/#comment-2878 i hope this website will not mess up my comp. i have had a time trying to get the web site mirar. i hope this website will not mess up my comp. i have had a time trying to get the web site mirar.

]]> By: Raymond Flournoy http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-2877 Raymond Flournoy Tue, 09 May 2006 01:25:51 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/#comment-2877 Thanks everyone for the great comments and feedback, both here and in other blogs. I can't quite comment on everything that people have posted, but let's just say that many of you seem to be reading our minds! You should continue to see improvements to Babel Fish as time goes on. Rickie, the website is not linked off the front page now, but if you click on "All Y! Services" you will find a page with all Yahoo! tools and properties, and we're included there. Or better yet, download the Yahoo! Toolbar and install the Babel Fish button! You can do one-click translations from the Toolbar, or navigate to Babel Fish with a pick from the dropdown menu. Go to babelfish.yahoo.com and there is a banner on the right for downloading the Toolbar and the Babel Fish button. Also, on the topic of color customization, I'm afraid that we aren't offering different colors for the Babel Fish's waters, and the Babel Fish himself won't be a clownfish or zebrafish any time soon, but you should definitely check out the My Yahoo! tool at my.yahoo.com. You can customize your page with over 100 themes and designs. Sundar, thanks for catching the other international elements in our drink! We don't offer either of those languages for translation (yet!) but we'll see what the future holds. Seo, sorry to hear about your troubles, and I hope those pages are translating for you now. Unfortunately there are some page elements which always confound our system. Extremely long pages, malformed HTML, certain types of javascript, very slow-loading page, ... ugh! So we do our best to handle as many pages as we can, but there are some that Babel Fish still chokes on. Cheers for trying the Babbling Fish, though! I hope it helped you speak a new tongue. Gen, Babel Fish was originally a creation of AltaVista which was purchased by Overture, which was in turn purchased by Yahoo! That's how he came to venture into our waters. And for everyone else, once again, thanks for the great ideas! We will take them all into consideration, and some are already in the works. Keep checking back, and keep striving to communicate with the rest of the world out there! Thanks everyone for the great comments and feedback, both here and in other blogs. I can’t quite comment on everything that people have posted, but let’s just say that many of you seem to be reading our minds! You should continue to see improvements to Babel Fish as time goes on.

Rickie, the website is not linked off the front page now, but if you click on “All Y! Services” you will find a page with all Yahoo! tools and properties, and we’re included there. Or better yet, download the Yahoo! Toolbar and install the Babel Fish button! You can do one-click translations from the Toolbar, or navigate to Babel Fish with a pick from the dropdown menu. Go to babelfish.yahoo.com and there is a banner on the right for downloading the Toolbar and the Babel Fish button.

Also, on the topic of color customization, I’m afraid that we aren’t offering different colors for the Babel Fish’s waters, and the Babel Fish himself won’t be a clownfish or zebrafish any time soon, but you should definitely check out the My Yahoo! tool at my.yahoo.com. You can customize your page with over 100 themes and designs.

Sundar, thanks for catching the other international elements in our drink! We don’t offer either of those languages for translation (yet!) but we’ll see what the future holds.

Seo, sorry to hear about your troubles, and I hope those pages are translating for you now. Unfortunately there are some page elements which always confound our system. Extremely long pages, malformed HTML, certain types of javascript, very slow-loading page, … ugh! So we do our best to handle as many pages as we can, but there are some that Babel Fish still chokes on. Cheers for trying the Babbling Fish, though! I hope it helped you speak a new tongue.

Gen, Babel Fish was originally a creation of AltaVista which was purchased by Overture, which was in turn purchased by Yahoo! That’s how he came to venture into our waters.

And for everyone else, once again, thanks for the great ideas! We will take them all into consideration, and some are already in the works. Keep checking back, and keep striving to communicate with the rest of the world out there!

]]> By: mhh5 http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-2876 mhh5 Mon, 01 May 2006 20:47:10 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/#comment-2876 Can babelfish try to at least guess which languages you're trying to translate? I hate how sometimes I forget to use the pull-down menu for say, German-to-English... Doesn't it know when text is 90% German... and can't it guess that I'd like to be able to read it in English? Can babelfish try to at least guess which languages you’re trying to translate? I hate how sometimes I forget to use the pull-down menu for say, German-to-English… Doesn’t it know when text is 90% German… and can’t it guess that I’d like to be able to read it in English?

]]> By: Gen Kiyooka http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-2875 Gen Kiyooka Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:46:21 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/#comment-2875 It's interesting that babelfish played such a small role in the hitchhikers movie. How did babelfish come to yahoo? Was it acquired? It’s interesting that babelfish played such a small role in the hitchhikers movie.

How did babelfish come to yahoo? Was it acquired?

]]> By: Amethyst http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-2874 Amethyst Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:49:53 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/#comment-2874 Forget the cocktail, what we need is a recipe for a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. :) Forget the cocktail, what we need is a recipe for a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. :)

]]> By: Scott Lawton http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-2873 Scott Lawton Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:38:16 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/#comment-2873 Please switch from the drop-down menu to 2 groups of radio buttons (from, to). That's faster and has less "conceptual load". Sure it takes more screen space, but that's much less of an issue 10? years later. (It's fine to make it a preference; many people may prefer the existing UI since it's familiar.) I'll bet that usability tests on new users (or a mockup with from/to using something other than language) will prove that radio buttons are faster/easier. One more suggestion: add a button to reverse the direction (i.e. swap from/to). Please switch from the drop-down menu to 2 groups of radio buttons (from, to). That’s faster and has less “conceptual load”. Sure it takes more screen space, but that’s much less of an issue 10? years later. (It’s fine to make it a preference; many people may prefer the existing UI since it’s familiar.)

I’ll bet that usability tests on new users (or a mockup with from/to using something other than language) will prove that radio buttons are faster/easier.

One more suggestion: add a button to reverse the direction (i.e. swap from/to).

]]> By: Wendell Wittler http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-2872 Wendell Wittler Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:13:15 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/#comment-2872 The drink more resembles another meme from HHGG... The Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. I just hope nobody attempts to insert Yahoo! in their ear... The drink more resembles another meme from HHGG… The Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster.

I just hope nobody attempts to insert Yahoo! in their ear…

]]> By: Seo http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-2871 Seo Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:05:26 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/#comment-2871 I used Babel Fish to translate my site into other languages. But right now seems theres some troubles (probably with URL encoding). Hope it'll be fixed soon. PS:Great cocktail (I just done one ;)). I used Babel Fish to translate my site into other languages. But right now seems theres some troubles (probably with URL encoding). Hope it’ll be fixed soon.

PS:Great cocktail (I just done one ;)).

]]> By: Sundar http://www.ysearchblog.com/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-2870 Sundar Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:11:21 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2006/04/27/say-hello-to-my-little-friend/#comment-2870 And by selecting ingredients carefully you can enjoy some Russian (vodka), Dutch (Curaçao), Japanese (Midori), and French (champagne) flavors in one glass--all languages that we translate on Babel Fish! Well it also had Mango (Tamil), and Sorbet (Turkish). And by selecting ingredients carefully you can enjoy some Russian (vodka), Dutch (Curaçao), Japanese (Midori), and French (champagne) flavors in one glass–all languages that we translate on Babel Fish!
Well it also had Mango (Tamil), and Sorbet (Turkish).

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