This is new! Google trying to translate my English page from Japanese?

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This is new! Google trying to translate my English page from Japanese?

hmmm....It's clearly in English and valid xhtml!

sandpetra

5:05 pm on Apr 4, 2007 (gmt 0)

This is new! Google is trying to translate a page in English and saying it is written in Japanese!

I know my grammar leaves a lot to be desired but this?

Anyone else seen this today?

I only noticed using site: command. Beside one of the pages was: (Translate)

bwnbwn

5:32 pm on Apr 4, 2007 (gmt 0)

I have 43 errors in my webmaster tools section due to this it looks like here in the ending of the url has nothing to do with my site

Sorry now I have 51 errors all them ending with this string

&y=025D341981B89A8F&i=51&c=1274&q=02%5ESSHPM%5BL7ivk~rvq?ljooszrzqkl6&e=latin1&r=9&d=www-en-us&n=E94K5H6OG0LK3PTK&s=7&t=&m=412B8730&x=01E13465FA51B336

I don't have a clue were Google is picking them up at but I feel it has something to do with translate as well

sandpetra

6:53 pm on Apr 4, 2007 (gmt 0)

I'm still looking at it. I will check GWMT as well...

wheelie34

9:48 am on Apr 5, 2007 (gmt 0)

Have you checked your content-type meta tag?

I remember reading somewhere someone had the wrong type and it was also trying to translate their English page to English.

One of mine is

bwnbwn

2:49 pm on Apr 5, 2007 (gmt 0)

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title></title>
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">

Nope don't think so had the same tag now for 5 years. I just went to one of our company sites there is 683 errors in webmaster tools all have this ending string

http //www site.com/arabic/ http //www site.com/filename.htm
this occurs in take arabic and replace with

German
French
Spanish
Latian
All these languages so what's up I know we don't have this in any language other than english