Babylon.com - Translation in a Single Click

Babylon.com is a desktop software company which offers its visitors a great tool to satisfy all their translation needs. With Babylon you can quickly translate emails, web pages, documents, instant messages, and more. All you have to do is click on the word or text that you want to translate and a small window instantly appears with the desired results from Babylon's extensive database of language dictionaries, glossaries and conversion tools. It also offers additional features such as currencies, measurements and time-units conversions and provides solutions for common typos, misspellings and wording problems. Once installed in your computer, Babylon will become a powerful and innovative reference tool of easy use that will allow you immediate online access to dictionaries and encyclopedia content from world-renowned dictionary publishers, including Oxford University Press, Britannica, Merriam-Webster, Larousse and many others.

“Babylon is the leading provider of single-click translation and information access solutions. It offers text translation in 17 languages and Wikipedia results in 13 languages, all in a single click. Babylon's translation and dictionary software offers results from a database of 1,300 sources in 75 languages. The database includes 25 professional dictionaries in 14 languages developed by Babylon's own linguistic team: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Hebrew, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Russian, Korean and Swedish.”

Nowadays, the internet has become a huge globalized market; people with diverse cultures and nationalities interact with each other in a regular basis. As a result, sites need constant translation into different languages and dialects in order to maintain the understanding between net users. This kind of site simplifies the translation process by offering a dynamic and accurate software that enables its users to understand texts in languages they are less familiar with.

Why isn’t an online demo available to test its main characteristics? If I have an old version of Babylon, how can I upgrade it? Do I need to pay? Why people will decide to buy this software if there are so many free products available?