info.babylon.com

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naorniv

• Aug 26, 2003

• #1

Hi,

About two weeks ago I submitted several URL's from this domain to various sub-categories under "Reference > Dictionaries > World languages".
Up till now I haven't seen any of them added in any of the sub-categories - Chinese, Dutch, French to name a few.

Your help/advice will be most appreciated.

 

nea

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• Aug 26, 2003

• #2

Please read the Forum Guidelines - for one thing, we need the exact URLs you submitted, and clickable links to the exact categories, and we ask that you wait at least a month after submission before asking for status (to give editors time to review your site suggestions!)
Thanks

[Edited to add: Looking at your site, I should probably also mention that I can't see that it could be listed in more than one place - the category Reference/Dictionaries/World_Languages/Multilingual/ would appear to be the best one; provided that the Reference editors think it's listable in the first place.]

 

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naorniv

• Aug 28, 2003

• #3

The main website is indeed indexed at the category you suggested. However, we are attempting to add also specific sections of the site, relevant to specific languages.

Thanks for the reply. I will wait patientally for a couple of weeks.

 

windharp

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• Aug 28, 2003

• #4

I guess the site itself is translated by the software, too.

In most languages we normally do not list autotranslated websites. The content is not "unique" enough - everyone could generate the same site by viewing the english page with one of the autotranslate-frontends available on the web. So I assume they won't be listed.

 

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naorniv

• Aug 31, 2003

• #5

That is not the case entirely.
a. Our homepage is indeed translated to 10 different languages, but it is not autotranslated. Babylon-Pro, in any case, does not translate full texts but only words and phrases. The site, as all the outgoing content of Babylon was translated by our linguistic team - by hand.
b. The URL's I was attempting to add to the index where for specific language-targeted dictionaries, and not of a translated homepage, namely:
http://info.babylon.com/cgi-bin/temp.cgi?id=904&layout=gt_new.html - English-German Dictionary
http://info.babylon.com/cgi-bin/temp.cgi?id=903&layout=gt_new.html - English-French Dictionary
http://info.babylon.com/cgi-bin/temp.cgi?id=902&layout=gt_new.html - English-Dutch Dictionary

etc.

 

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motsa

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• Aug 31, 2003

• #6

Those are just add-on components for the Babylon software and wouldn't be accepted anywhere in the ODP.

By the way, if you don't mind me offering a suggestion as a user and potenial customer, it would be a really good idea if you put the technical requirements for the software on the product pages (e.g. what platform? Windows only? which versions of Windows?). Right now as far as I can see, the user just gets to guess what platform it runs on until they get to the trial download section where the only indication that it is indeed Windows only is the extension on the file.

 

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naorniv

• Sep 1, 2003

• #7

a. Currently, just by a random check, I found 10 different URL's in the category "reference > dictionaries > world languages > Dutch" that are all different dictionaries from the same site - travlang. How are Babylon dictionaries different?
b. Our product page says
"Babylon's patented OCR technology enables users to click on any word, phrase or number in any Windows application".

 

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brmehlman

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• Sep 1, 2003

• #8

How are Babylon dictionaries different? Well, they seem to require the purchase of your software before they can be used. On the Travlang sites listed in the category you mention, I can type in an English word, like "acorn" for example, and without requiring me to buy anything it tells me the Dutch word I want to use.

 

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naorniv

• Sep 2, 2003

• #9

Any of these pages allow you to both download a dictionary, download the Babylon trial version, which you can use free of charge for 30 days, and/or try Babylon online for free.

 

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brmehlman

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• Sep 2, 2003

• #10

This seems to be turning into a debate, which is contrary to the purpose and guidelines of this forum.

The web pages being discussed do not add unique and relevant content to the categories they were suggested for, and we have decided not to list them there.