# Odd interaction with Discourse and Google Translate

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/odd-interaction-with-discourse-and-google-translate/315160
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [July 5, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/odd-interaction-with-discourse-and-google-translate/315160 "2024-07-05T15:48:26Z")
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### Author: ![mentalstring](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mentalstring/32/168934_2.png) [@mentalstring](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mentalstring)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2024, 4:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/odd-interaction-with-discourse-and-google-translate/315160/2 "2024-08-29T16:30:43Z")

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Sorry for rehashing this, but I think I chose the wrong title (and angle) and it didn’t get the proper attention.

Right now, Discourse is **incompatible** with Google Translate which is likely the most used translation tool.

Any topic URL pasted into [Google Translate](https://translate.google.com/) always ends up with the 404 page being translated and not the actual topic. It works ok with the homepage and topic lists URLs – but not a topic.

Perhaps Google Translate is being fed some special crawler/print version that doesn’t work for this purpose?

I use Google Translate regularly and I only saw this behaviour with Discourse topics, so at least part of the issue appears to be in Discourse.

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