es, to allow
full-text searching. In March 2010, the revamped site of Gallica
(launched in March 2008) reached one million documents, most of which
are available for free.

1997 > The first blog

A blog is an online diary kept by a person or a group. The diary is in
(reverse) chronological order, an can be updated every minute or once
per month. The first blog showed up in 1997. In July 2005, there were
14 million blogs worldwide, with 80,000 new blogs per day. In December
2006, Technorati gave the number of 65 million blogs, with 175,000 new
blogs per day. Some blogs are devoted to photos (photoblogs), music
(audioblogs or podcasts) or video (vlogs or videoblogs).

1997 > Eurodicautom, or European terminology in 12 languages

Managed by the translation service of the European Commission,
Eurodicautom was a multilingual terminology database of economic,
scientific, technical and legal terms and expressions, with language
pairs for the eleven official languages of the European Union (Danish,
English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Netherlands,
Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish) and Latin, and with an average of
120,000 hits per day in 2003. In late 2003, Eurodicautom announced its
integration into a larger terminology database in partnership with
several institutions of the European Union. The new database would deal
with more than 20 languages, because of the enlargement of the European
Union the following year, to include several countries in Eastern
Europe. IATE (InterActive Terminology for Europe) was launched in as a
free public service.

1997 > The Yahoo! Interface in seven languages

In California, two students at Stanford University, David Filo and
Jerry Lang, launched in January 1994 Yahoo!, an online directory to
give access to websites and sort them out by topics. The directory
became quite popular, because of a better classification than the one
of search engines like AltaVista, where these tasks were fully
automated. However, when a search didn't give any result in Yahoo!, it
was automatically shunted to AltaVista, and vice versa. Three years
later, Yahoo! was classifying websites in 63 sections, with an
interface in seven languages: English, French, German, Japanese,
Korean, Norwegian and Swedish.

December 1997 > Babel Fish, or AltaVista Translation

In December 1997, AltaVista, a leading search engine, was the first to
launch a free translation software with Babel Fish--also called
Al