Google Bans Google Translate

I knew the day would come that Google would start self-banning.  Or at least that something would trigger a ban by accident or something.  But I was trying to get to Google Translate and I got these results for the keywords “translate” and “google translate” (keep in mind that Google Translate used to be #1 for both):

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This just goes to show that, for all of the paranoid SEOs out there, Google is not always out to get you. Sometimes they’re out to get themselves too.

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They appear to have fixed it.

Maybe they read your site. Or they’re just messing with your head.

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