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> There certainly did used to be competition to Google Translate but Google crushed them by promoting their own services (which came later)[1]. Yahoo was the s
by magicalist 6y ago
> There certainly did used to be competition to Google Translate but Google crushed them by promoting their own services (which came later)[1].
Yahoo was the search engine that crushed altavista, then ultimately bought babelfish and let it rot, all several years before google translate came out.
- jsjohnst 6y ago> Yahoo was the search engine that crushed altavista If you mean “bought Altavista and then squandered it”, then sure, but they definitely never crushed Altavista from my POV.