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Originally Posted by NLP-er

Hello. Somebody wrote in one post that Google requests to set link to Google if you want to use translation API. I'm just reading those conditions (http://code.google.com/intl/pl-PL/ap...age/terms.html) and I cannot find such condition (I was looking by URL and link words).

So the question is - is it really needed? If yes where exactly it is written? Is it enough to only write that it is Google translation (without URL)? Or maybe even that is not needed...

Somebody knows?

Google TOS says this:

2.3 Attribution. The Google Results provided to You through the Service may contain the trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features of Google, its partners, or other third party rights holders of content indexed by Google. You may not delete or in any manner alter these trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features.

You agree to include and display the "powered by Google" attribution and/or any other attribution(s) required by Google as described in the documentation conspicuously on the page, in close proximity and adjacent to any translation box(es) and Google Result(s)

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Hence, and links are not required, but it is a nice thing to do. Powered by Google is required (I think we actually say "Language Translations Powered by Google" (or something like that), and is what we use (we also link back to Google to be nice to them, since they provide this great service for free.)