You might think of Bable fish to be a type of fish that swims in the deeper part of the oceans. Well, you're wrong. The Bable fish is not a fish. It is doesn't even have life. It isn't in any way a living creature, unless it is the name given to a newly discovered variety of fish. Well, Bable fish is actually the official web-based translation service of Yahoo. At the start, it is one of the freshest things ever to be created on the web.

With the introduction of Bable fish over the internet, webmasters don't need to shell out enormous amount of money just to hire a human translator. With the use of the software, each web page can translated into 10 different languages - instantly and all for free. A human translator may charge a ridiculous fee of ten cents per word for their service. Think of how you will be charged for a simple text of 500 words. To translate a 500-word article from English to Dutch , the cost will approximately be $50. Now what if you have to translate twenty articles? How about if you need to translate your blog in five languages everyday? If you try to compute everything, you will surely spend several hundreds of dollars in multiple translation of a single article. If you can generate that much income on your website, then you can proceed. If you don't, human translation services are totally not worth it - not unless your site is named Yahoo, MSN, or Google on its self.

This is when Babel fish entered. Webmasters tried this automatic article translation service for their website. Some of the newest versions of this software are even capable of automatic translations for the benefit of foreign readers. Just add it as a plug in to your site and it would work seamlessly.

But wait - something is wrong. The people who actually speak the translated language were laughing at the funny sentences that the Babel fish translator makes. This is because the service is not only grammatically incorrect - it also merges words and ideas that are completely outside of context. Well, it seems as if the fish isn't that good an alternative after all. And now, human translators have further proven that no software can replace their services - definitely not Babel fish or any other fish in the ocean for that matter. The translators have further proven to everyone that their fees are worth paying simply because they provide quality work.

Even so, the Babel fish translator is bound to stick around. While it may not provide the best quality of work, it can still be used for emergency translations of texts. Anyway, it's free so it shouldn't be an inconvenience at all. The Babel fish translator work in a sense that it gives the reader a good idea as to what the article or document is all about. So If you understand the other language well, then you can comprehend what the article means, more or less.

Well, if you'd rather discover a fish and name it Babel fish than use the online translator service, that's still okay. For as long as you can pay for the human service, you're free to get which ever quality of work you want.