Yahoo/Altavista Bablefish and Google Translation (til 2007) were based on SYSTRAN software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sy

Yahoo/Altavista Bablefish and Google Translation (til 2007) were based on SYSTRAN software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systran (a desktop version for offline usage is even available) Now, both Bing Translator and Google Translation use a technology called statistical machine translation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_machine_translation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_machine_translation