Google in Other Countries as an Anonymizer
I sit behind a proxy filter at work which is a pain the butt when it comes to trying to get to pages that have information that I need on them. Some times pages are misclassified, sometimes there are services I’d like to use but can’t get to. For instance, Google’s translation services, which work better than many of the translation services out there. This includes AltaVista’s Babel Fish services which is what I’m locked into using by the proxy.
Google’s translation service (as well as some of the other online translation services that I’d like to use) is classified as an anonymizer. This is due to the fact that you can use it to bypass the proxy and load pages that you can’t get to otherwise. Which is weird because Babel Fish will do exactly the same thing, only less reliably. I’m guessing this unreliability is why we’re allowed to use it (maybe I’m just being paranoid).
I’ve found a way around the proxy we use (of course this will only work until someone figures this out and adds a new filter and stops this behavior). Use Google in another country/language and access that translation service as an anonymizer:
German: http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=de
Japanese: http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=ja
Etc., you get the point.
From there just select the proper language to translate to/from. I haven’t tried the above links form work yet. I usually navigate to the translation services from the Google home page for that country (ie http://www.google.de > Mehr > Übersetzen or http://www.google.jp > more » > 翻訳). So, we’ll see if this works when I try to access the translation services directly…
UPDATE – 070725
This does work from behind proxies. At least as of this date…
