Access restricted web sites using Google as a proxy
December 28th, 2005
This is a great hack. Say you work in a company that blocks Web surfing to certain Web sites.
O’Reilly posted a super-cool tip about using Google translation services as a kind of Web proxy and bypass this limitation!
You just need to type the following URL:
http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.SomeForbiddenSite.com
What you’ll get is the translation (English to English!) of the page you want to see…
Your connection is directed to a google.com page so this page won’t be blocked (would be blocked only with google.com on the black list), no matter what’s the content.
How cool is that huh?! 
[Via: O'Reilly]
December 29th, 2005 at 10:31
Not so cool, as bad ppl can use it to bypass URL filtering.
January 9th, 2006 at 22:33
This doesn’t work with Websense which most companies use.
February 13th, 2006 at 12:10
This does not work with ISA 2004, most of the time anyway. I am quite relieved as this concerned me from an Information officer point of view
August 20th, 2006 at 19:15
how do you access this web site when it is restricted
January 25th, 2007 at 18:15
i typed in the url to try to get 2 myspace but it says that the website couldn’t be found. come up with something better.
March 27th, 2007 at 16:28
im a vegetarian
October 8th, 2007 at 17:19
i still cant access myspace. Its blocked using webwasher
July 28th, 2008 at 17:01
Doesn t work with webwasher