Search in Two Languages with Babelplex

No, it's not Babelfish (though it does use Babelfish), it's Babelplex, a bilingual search service. It's available at http://babelplex.com/ . What it does is allow you to specify a query word in one language, and get the results for that query in both the original language and the language you specify.

From the beginning page you specify the word for which you want to search, and the language into which you want the search to be translated. You can translate from one of several languages into one of any other languages. I tried searching for chinois, searching for the French query in English.

My result was a split screen of Google results with the results for the French search of the French word on the left and the English search of the translated word on the right. Down at the bottom is another framed area allowing you to do a different search and perhaps pick another search engine (like Yahoo) to do it on.

If you search a word that the Babelfish translator doesn't recognize, the system burps and you get a Babelfish error in the right frame.

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