Google has enhanced our lives in all sorts of ways, with voice apps, mail, maps, and so on. But they also do the more mundane, such as Google Translate.
I've found that you can use Google Translate as a sort of lazy man's proxy/filter avoidance. Where I work, we've got a web content filtering tool that, for the most part, blocks inappropriate content, but is most certainly not immune to false positives -- blocking stuff that's not in any way objectionable. Maybe it's blocking on something as stupid as a word found in a URL, say, if you wanted to learn about some birds. In my case, I was looking for some technical discussions related to my work, but my employer's network filtering app told me (erroneously) that it was a gambling site.
I've found that you can use Google Translate as a sort of lazy man's proxy/filter avoidance. Where I work, we've got a web content filtering tool that, for the most part, blocks inappropriate content, but is most certainly not immune to false positives -- blocking stuff that's not in any way objectionable. Maybe it's blocking on something as stupid as a word found in a URL, say, if you wanted to learn about some birds. In my case, I was looking for some technical discussions related to my work, but my employer's network filtering app told me (erroneously) that it was a gambling site.
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Go to http://www.google.com/translate and try feeding it http://www.instructables.com/. You might try translating from English to Spanish and you'll see this page. I don't speak Spanish very well, so I can't tell you how poorly this might be translated. But point of fact: I don't want or need the Spanish translation. So now I suggest you instead click the radio button in the upper-right labeled "Original" which will lead you here.
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Unfortunately my workplace's filter already includes Google Translate into it's blacklist. It even clearly states its use as a proxy as a reason for avoidance.
Now, I don't know if this is a tailored list for my employer, or if they get their list from their filter client.
But your mileage may vary depending on which software they use.