What is a babel fish?

For those who aren’t familiar with Douglas Adams’s 1979 novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (originally conceived as a radio play for the BBC), a babel fish is a universal translator in the form of a small fish that you stick in your ear.

What happened to Yahoo Babel Fish?

Yahoo! Yahoo! Babel Fish was a free Web -based multilingual translation application. In May 2012 it was replaced by Bing Translator (now Microsoft Translator ), to which queries were redirected.

Why does Colluphid use the Babel Fish?

More specifically, Colluphid uses the Babel fish as an argument for intelligent design (or - and there are some subtle differences here) in a version of the so-called teleological argument for God's existence. But Colluphid then goes further - using the existence of the Babel fish to try to prove that God does not exist.

Is Babelfish a real company?

Babel Fish should not be confused with The BabelFish Corporation founded by Oscar Jofre, which was operated at the URL www.babelfish.com (created in 1995). As of June 2013, babelfish.yahoo.com no longer redirected to the Microsoft Bing Translator.