Google forces a translation to Japanese

2009-09-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, One of my clients is having a weird problem, and I'm pretty much at my wit's end as for what to do about it. The site is called Tzofit (at tzofit.co.il), and is an index and publisher for Zimmers. When you search Google for צימרים the site appears on the second page, and when you

Re: Google forces a translation to Japanese

2009-09-14 Thread shimi
2009/9/14 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz Hi all, One of my clients is having a weird problem, and I'm pretty much at my wit's end as for what to do about it. The site is called Tzofit (at tzofit.co.il), and is an index and publisher for Zimmers. When you search Google for צימרים the

Re: Google forces a translation to Japanese

2009-09-14 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi Shahacr, A bit far fetched, if you control the web server, could you verify that there is no special treatment to Google Bots in regard to the responses receives/sent to it? Also I noticed the web server doesn't specify which language it responds with, it is worth telling it via the

Re: Google forces a translation to Japanese

2009-09-14 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/9/14 Shachar Shemesh shac...@shemesh.biz Hi all, One of my clients is having a weird problem, and I'm pretty much at my wit's end as for what to do about it. In addition to the other advise you got - maybe have a sniff around the Google Webmaster Tools site

Re: Google forces a translation to Japanese

2009-09-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Yuval Hager wrote: Trying to translate the Japanese text, using Google Translate, back to English seems to show that the text translates, but is not coherent sentences. Then again, looking at the raw encoding, this does not appear to be Hebrew interpreted with the wrong encoding (or am I missing