especially among search results. If you're searching for information about a phrase like
hamburger recipe, it's strange to come across a page about it in German. It's stranger
still to find a mention of your name on a page in a foreign language.
Yahoo!'s Language Tools page http://tools.search.yahoo.com/language has some ways to help
you work with other languages. Among them is a translation service that will translate any
block of text to a different language.
If you find yourself translating pages frequently, there are some ways to speed up
the process. You can translate an entire web page by copying and pasting the URL
into the field labeled "Translate this web page" on the Yahoo! Language Tools page,
choosing the language from the drop-down menu, and clicking Translate. Yahoo! will
display the page with all of the text translated.
From any web page, you can click the Translate button and Yahoo! will display a version
in English. Yahoo! will also automatically detect the source language, so you don't need
to choose a language from a menu. This is also handy if you can't tell what language the
page is in. If you just want to translate a block of text instead of the entire page,
you can click the arrow next to the fish and choose Language and Translation Tools from
the menu; you'll go to the Yahoo! Language Tools page, where you can paste the text you
want to translate into the translation form.
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/language/translation/translatedPage.
In addition to the simple search form you'll find at http://search.yahoo.com, Yahoo!
offers an Advanced Web Search form at http://search.yahoo.com/web/advanced.
This form lets you refine your search in a number of ways, so you can narrow
the results to a more useful list.
