Google Translate links are blocked in Saudi Arabia due to proxy- overrun issues. That is, Google by translating blocked websites in Google-based URLs allow people to access these websites.
The good news here, http://translate.google.com.sa/?hl=en is working fine. Regards, Moteb On Dec 20, 8:53 pm, Josh (Google Employee) wrote: > Strange guys. Thanks for working through it. Please let me know if > you can find out any information *why* these pages were blocked by the > Saudi firewall, or other firewalls, and if there's anything we can do > on our end to prevent this kind of thing from happening again in the > future, or to other users, we'll do it. > > Thanks again all. > > Best, > Josh > > PS... in case you're still running into issues, a couple other things > you could try are our interfaces intended for mobile > browsers:http://translate.google.com/m (a very light weight > version)http://translate.google.com/m/translate (optimized for Android and > iPhone) > > You could also try our iGoogle > gadget:http://www.google.com/webmasters/igoogle/translate.html > > While these other interfaces may not be quite as feature rich > ashttp://translate.google.com/, they may provide a work around for the > time being. > > On Dec 20, 1:53 am, Osky wrote: > > > > > Having the same problem and can confirm that for me it was a firewall block. > > Thanks for the suggestion! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
