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AltaVista's Translation Tool Bar? Any Good

Feb 5, 2004 9:33AM PST

Does this tool bar mess up your internet explorer with a Bunch of AltaVists's Junk?

I use their Translation page Bable Fish to look a Japanese pages and was wondering how good this tool bar would work?

Would you still be going through AltaVista's site with this tool bar?

Thanks for the help..

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Re:AltaVista's Translation Tool Bar? Any Good
Feb 6, 2004 3:25AM PST

I am not sure about AltaVista's but MSN has a new toolbar to use with IE. Works pretty well.

Richard

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Re:Re:Sorry Here is address
Feb 6, 2004 3:26AM PST
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Re:Re:Re:Sorry Here is address
Feb 6, 2004 3:52AM PST

I need something to Translate Japanese webpages into english?

I did not see this on the MSN tool bar?

Thanks..

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Will this work?
Feb 6, 2004 5:11AM PST
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Re:AltaVista's Translation Tool Bar? Any Good
Feb 6, 2004 10:26AM PST

The toolbar is pretty much on the same order as Googles and really isn't too intrusive.

I do not use it as I still have their old tools for MSIE 5 (works just as well on MSIE 6) that consist of a single MicroPortal button that opens a small window at the bottom of the current window where you can conduct your searches or translations.

The only place I still find it is at http://www.bjoernd.de/downloads.html (a german site but AltaVista Tools f