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has google discontinued this option? if not, then where it is? i remember, last time i checked, it was in "search tools option" right above the "verbatim" option. now its not there. HELP

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Short answer for : that old "Translated foreign pages" cross‑language filter was removed by Google in mid‑May 2013, so it no longer appears under Search Tools. Google confirmed the functionality was taken away as part of streamlining features. (seroundtable.com)

Clarifying what saw: the "Translate this page" behavior (or Chrome's translate popup) is a page‑level translation — it translates a single page you open. That is not the same as the former cross‑language search that translated your query and searched foreign pages for matching content. Use Chrome or Google Translate to read a page, but that won’t reproduce the old cross‑language search. ()

Practical workarounds that reproduce most of the old capability:

  • Use Google Advanced Search and pick a Language to get pages written in that language. (google.com)
  • Force a language at the URL level with the lr=lang_xx parameter (for Spanish use lr=lang_es). Example: 
https://www.google.com/search?q=presidential+election&lr=lang_es

This restricts results to pages Google classifies as that language; translate the returned pages with Chrome if needed. For constructing lr values and quick tweaks, see community notes on language parameters. (webapps.stackexchange.com)

A few quick notes: machine translation of keywords is imprecise — translated query terms may not match how native speakers search, so expect noise. For serious multilingual SEO or research, translate queries with a native speaker or use local keyword tools and local market search engines to get accurate phrasing. (searchengineland.com)

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I see a "translate this page" option, if thats what you mean. it shows up automatically.

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no brother, i mean "translated foreign pages", like if what we are looking for over the web is actually can be found in another language, say spanish, then google used to have this option to type the query in english and then google automatically translates the keyword into spanish and then look it all over the web into the websites whose text is written in Spanish, not in english language. it used to be in

<< Search tools >> (as show in your graphic)

  • upon clicking "search tools", google used to show other options such as "the web". "Any time", and "ALL RESULTS"
  • upon clicking "ALL RESULTS", google shows more options such as "verbatim", "sites with images", "not yet visited". now in this menu, we used to have "FOREIGN TRANSLATED PAGES" option, right above the "verbatim" option. now its not there!!!!!!!!! HELP
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