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I’ve just noticed that Google are blocking the Angsuman Translator plugin - I wonder if they are clamping down on 3rd party services that don’t pay to use their translation plugin?
Can anybody shed any light?
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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK.
Comment by taragana on 11 February 2007:
They are not blocking third party translation services and they are definitely not targeting Angsuman’s Translator Pro
They will however prevent any site who is excessively using their bandwidth. They normally reset it after 24 hours or so. The way around it is simple. Simply set your wp-cache 2 plugin to 10 hours or more of caching time to reduce the load on their server. In the next version we are introducing enhancements for heavy users so these load balancing will be done automatically.
Comment by Everton on 11 February 2007:
wow that was fast. My cache is set to 10 hours already - I need to start checking my stats to see how many non-english visitors I’m getting
Comment by Tony Williams on 17 February 2007:
My site has been banned now thanks to getting on the digg homepage - which other engine is better - Worldlingo or babelfish?
Thanks
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