Hi Josh,
Thanks for your message. Yeah, I would assume that Google would be fine with me providing links to their translation service on my website, but it is just that I'm not sure if this constitutes an 'automated query' which would violated the terms of service. I have not received any error messages to this effect, but I read a comment somewhere that said that using the translator links like this would incur some sort of penalty from Google. Since I haven't been able to find any information about this elsewhere I'm just trying to figure out how I can ask Google directly so that I can avoid any penalties in the search results from my site. Has anyone else heard anything about this? Chris On Sep 10, 11:48 am, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Providing links on your page to Google Translations of your page is > certainly not something that I think Google would have any problem > with. I would imagine they *like* when people link to them in that > way. > > I would encourage you however to reconsider using flags for the > links. This is a common practice, but not necessarily a good one. > You might like to readhttp://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/flags.html > > As for the "automated queries" error you're seeing, this has nothing > to do specifically with your website, but rather Google things that > your computer might be sending lots of automated queries to their > service. This shouldn't happen if you're doing legitimate > translations, but perhaps in testing your flag links you did a whole > bunch of translations in a short period of time? or maybe you're > behind a proxy where other users are doing translations? Not sure. > > Hope that helps. > > Best, > Josh > > On Sep 10, 12:09 am, Chris Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > I recently launched a new website and I integrated some Google > > Translate code into each page of the site so that if users click on a > > specific flag the page will automatically be translated by Google into > > a different language. I had seen some of the other gadgets that > > Google offers, but none of them are compact enough for what I was > > looking for, and when I found this code on another site it seemed to > > look and work quite well. Since many other websites and blogs seem to > > be doing this lately with various gadgets I assumed that it had become > > common practice. > > > The issue is that I stumbled across a page the other day which said > > that using Google Translate on my site in this way might be against > > the terms of service regarding 'automated queries', and it may lead to > > some sort of penalties against my site if I keep it in place. I was > > wondering if this is indeed true and if it will be necessary for me to > > remove this feature from my website in order to avoid any penalties. > > > I'm really hoping that I can keep it since it is a very useful feature > > on my site and I don't really think that it hurts Google in any way, > > but I'm not exactly trying to go out of my way to get penalized, so I > > wanted to see what the official word is on this. In searching for > > information on this the results range from vague statements warning > > against 'automated queries' to speculations about this possibly > > leading to penalties, although I'm not exactly sure if what I am doing > > actually counts as an automated query, so I'm hoping that someone here > > will be able to confidently confirm or deny whether or not I really > > need to remove this from my site. > > > I don't know if this is necessary, but my site is located > > athttp://www.hellenisticastrology.com, and you can see the flags/ > > translation buttons towards the top right hand corner of the page. I > > would appreciate any help that more experienced members of this group > > or those associated with Google might be able to provide. > > > Best regards, > > Chris. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Translate" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
