Babylon to Provide Translation Services to AOL Latino

NEW YORK, November 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Babylon LTD (TASE: BBYL), a world leading provider of dictionary and translation solutions, announced it will provide AOL Latino, http://www.aollatino.com, with a number of free Web-based translation tools, letting users translate content from one language to another directly on the AOL Latino website.

"With the high growth of Internet content in many languages, we are witnessing the increasing demand for translation services online," said Tal Shaked, director of business development at Babylon. "This agreement is a significant milestone in our relationship with AOL. We believe AOL users are provided with a great added-value service while Babylon will enjoy an effective distribution source."

Babylon's translation tool for AOL Latino will initially be offered through the homepage as well as to Spanish speakers on AOL's Latin American country websites, including AOL Argentina, http://www.aol.com.ar, AOL Colombia, http://www.aol.com.co, AOL Chile, http://www.aol.cl, AOL Venezuela, http://www.aol.com.ve and AOL Mexico, http://www.aol.com.mx. The agreement enables users to translate content from English to Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and French and vice versa.

"We are excited to be partnering with Babylon and their translation tools for AOL Latino," said Miguel Ferrer, Director of Programming, AOL Latino. "Our international users are a huge part of our daily viewers, so anything we can do to help them access our content in their preferred language is a win for AOL Latino."

At launch, two service tools will be made available. The first one is a more robust tool, [http://noticias.aol.com/traductor], which delivers translation of phrases, full sentences and whole paragraphs of text. The second one, available on all inner article pages on AOL Latino, enables users to translate single words only. Both tools will be made available in the form of widgets, allowing any AOL Latino user to easily make the service available on their own website or blog by embedding the Babylon-AOL Latino Translation widget code.

About Babylon Ltd.

Babylon.com (TASE: BBYL) is a leading provider of online dictionary and translation solutions. The Babylon.com user base exceeds 50 million desktop installations. Babylon sold more than 2 Million licenses of the software to private users and organizations in more than 190 countries For more information about Babylon, visit www.babylon.com or one of Babylon's free online websites - http://translation.babylon.com, http://dictionary.babylon.com

About AOL Latino

AOL Latino, http://latino.aol.com, is the bilingual portal for U.S. Hispanics that offers comprehensive Spanish language products and services including free email and instant messaging. The service also offers U.S. and Latin American news, financial tools, the latest in music and entertainment, personal finance, sports, fashion and beauty, as well as access to all the existing content available on AOL, http://www.aol.com. In the U.S., AOL Latino is one of the top two bilingual portals for Hispanics with more than 2.1 million unique visitors.(1)

(1) October 2008 comScore Media Metrix; Latino category has been custom-built by AOL.

    
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    Dalia Preisler
    Babylon Ltd.
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