Google Search strives to make information accessible and useful to all users. To help address
content and perspective gaps when a user searches in their local language, sometimes Google may translate the
title link and snippet of a search result for results that aren’t in the language of the search
query, when available. Translated results enable people to view results from other languages in
their language, and can help publishers reach a larger audience.


Feature availability
Currently, Google may translate results into the following languages: Arabic, Bengali, English,
French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Indonesian, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Persian,
Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese. It’s available on mobile and desktop.
How translated results work
If the user clicks the translated title link, they’re presented with a page that’s been machine translated.
Users also have an option to view the original search result, and access the entire page in the original language.
Google doesn’t host any translated pages. Opening a page through a translated result is no
different than opening the original search result through Google Translate
or using Chrome in-browser translation.
This means that Javascript on the page is usually supported, as well as embedded images and other
page features.
Monitor performance in Search Console
To monitor clicks and impressions for translated results, you can use the
Search Appearance filter
in the Performance report.
Opting in or out of translated results
This feature is applicable across all pages and results based on the user’s language. You don’t
need to do anything to opt in.
Translated results are like other translation-related features in Google Search. To opt out of
all translation features in Google Search, use the
notranslate rule,
which can be implemented as a meta tag or an HTTP header:
Alternatively, you can specify the rule as an HTTP response header:
How we apply this
Translated results extend reach into languages a client does not publish in. We check eligibility for clients with international ambitions before commissioning full translation, since the automatic surface may cover the opportunity.
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