Google forces a translation to Japanese

[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
>> something?)
>>
>> If anyone has any clue, it would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shachar
>>     
>
> The Japanese text is not complete nonsense, like you would expect from an 
> encoding problem. Could it be that the site was hacked in some way that 
> presents Google bots different content from what others see? 
>
>   
The client contacted no less than three (3) "SEO specialists", with all 
not coming any more than "It's a malware" of some sort.  They even 
recommended we hire a scanning service by one of the list's participants 
(which we would have, had Noam answered his messenger - in fact, Noam, 
please have one of your sales people contact me). What not one of them 
managed to do is explain how a malware can cause the Google cache to 
show the wrong result for some search results, and the correct one for 
others, nor how to make Google show the wrong summary, but the correct 
page in the cache.

My personal opinion is that Google had a bug that crossed the index with 
some other site. Admittedly, that theory does not completely match up to 
all available evidence. For instance, if you search Google for the 
Japanese description in quotes, there are zero results found (then 
again, you also don't get Tzofit's site, which is also weird).

Like I said, ideas welcome.

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com

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