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It's interesting that the reason for this is 'extensive abuse', does anyone know if it is talking about the 'translate party' websites that translate back and f
by esrauch 15y ago
It's interesting that the reason for this is 'extensive abuse', does anyone know if it is talking about the 'translate party' websites that translate back and forth in rapid succession.
- wesley 15y agoPerhaps to create "unique content" in other languages, to rank in the local google search engines.
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoThat seems unlikely - there aren't too many, they don't make that many calls, and Google could just shut them down. I think http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2590551 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2590551 (andymurd) presents a more likely explanation: > I think the "abuse" they are referring to is the common practise among blackhats of using Google Translate to spin stolen content to make it unique. Translating English -> $LANGUAGE -> English makes for a cheap, low grade article rewriter.
- oelewapperke 15y agoBut if you know what you're doing dozens of google api's are useful for this. I mean linguistics may not be all that far as a science, but it's advanced enough to whip some letters around without totally changing the meaning of the text. Google book search, for example, or google search itself, could easily be used for it.
- ojilles 15y agoProbably not entirely viable nor wanted, but this did give me the idea of Google Translate using steganography to detect translated text through Google Translate to spot abusers. Just by translating the texts a little bit different for each user.
- knowtheory 15y agoNo i'm guessing it's things like the CNN scraper that was taking stories, automatically translating them to russian and then posting them. There was one in the news this week for having mistranslated Dominique Strauss Khan as the "head" (as in tip of penis) of the IMF.