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[SenatorFromHell]

Hallo Webmaster World!

I recently started lurking around this website and found it to be helpful as much as confusing. Realizing how little I know about internet and SEO made me feel very, very small.
I am not sure if this post belongs under this topic, but here it is:
Using free Google translation links from my homepage works fine (banner is annoying, but hey, its free). However for Asian languages Altavista's Bablefish worked fine (exactly as Google) until a few days ago when the links broke.
Today, I found this example link to be working good:
<http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?url=http%3A%2F%2FYourDomainName.com&lp=en_ja>
If you test it, you will see that the altavista banner is gone! and there is no fish.
I understand that the translation is not perfect, but makes sense for a large, unprofitable, constantly updated site.
How to get the link that will display Altavista banner above the translation? Concerned about copyright infringement and whatever consequences might result from using the above link on my homepage.

Thank you for your help and advice.

[rogerd]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Mr. Senator. As you noticed, Yahoo is submerging AltaVista's separate identity, at least for the moment. I'd recommend contacting Yahoo and asking about the availability of the Babelfish translator and, if it's available, the proper way to link to it. Good luck - it's sad when a useful service may go away.

[kevinpate]

We have several org. members who have commented favorably on the availability of the lil fishy since its addition on our site a while back.

I haven't noticed the av translation not functioning but in truth hadn't checked in several days and haven't had any "hey, what's wrong inquiries?"

This post caused me to flip over and check it out. For us it appears (for now) to be working fine.

If it's gonna go buh-bye, I'll miss it that lil' fishy and flag set graphic/javalink.

Guess it's time to put going fishing back on my daily check list. I hadn't even thought about it not working in light of Y! downplaying AV.

[SenatorFromHell]

The old link works fine now, thank you for your replies. I have reduced the page size to under 50k.
Not sure if that was creating problems...

[beakertrail]

You might also like to try Google's language tools as an alternative should Yahoo! not be able to give you the answer you're after.

[google.com...]

Beaker

[Leosghost]

you might even try using real translator ...ever asked the people who get to read what the fish says what it says after its been thru two other languages and come back again ......makes me wake up in the middle of the night thinking "so thats what they meant "

You could start wars with an auto translator...

[SenatorFromHell]

I am already using google for all available translations (German, French, Spanish, Portugese and Italian), Altavista for Japanese, Korean, Chinese.
As for starting wars...you are talking to the wrong senator.