The Letter
on Monday, January 29th, 2007 at 5:52 pmAnd here’s the letter I am sending to google:
Dear Google,
I’m hoping you can help me with something.
My name is Max Case, a resident of second life (http://secondlife.com). It’s basically a large virtual space.
Anyhow, I made something to bridge this space with google translations (a mashup basically). This allows people from all over the world to talk to one another in this space.
Because I have to use screen scraping, I have to route it all through my site (transparent to the end user).
However, I point out all translations are by google, and I don’t charge any money for the product.
However, it seems you system has flagged me erroneously as potential spammer or virus :)
“We’re sorry…
… but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.
We’ll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we’ll see you again on Google.”
I am wondering if there is anything we can do about this? I’m a fan boi, honest.
My site is www.maxcase.info.
sincerely.
max
[update - looks like yahoo! is a bit more on the ball. It started rejecting my requests after like 1 minute :/ I suppose this is what being a victim of your success is like. ]
Of course, my own feelings are this functionality should be rolled into the client, and the LL has the pull that they could make an official deal with someone to pipe the translations through. As oppossed to me, sending my little email into the google or yahoo void :(
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