Duplicate Content and Translations

Does a page translated to various languages qualify as duplicate content?

[cristinita]

As of now, my website is just in Spanish. However I'm willing to publish the same exact info translated into other European languages (German, English and French). Would this qualify (for Google) as internal duplicate content and could the whole site be penalised?

Thanks in advance for your help/comments

[edited by: lawman at 3:42 am (utc) on Nov. 2, 2005]

[pallaton]

Hi there,
As far as I know and my experience with site translation (english / japanese).There is no problem with duplicate content.

Pallaton

[cristinita]

any other experiences?

[Rollo]

Not a chance... langauge is far too nuanced for this to even be techniologically possible at this point. Just take a paragrpah of, say, Spanish text and put it in an Spanish > English translator... you get unrecognizable crap.

That said, it wouldn't make a bit of sense for engines to penalize people for translations even if they were able... a translation appeals to a completely different audience than the original language text.