Knowledge base v2.13.0 · Community edition · data through 2 October 2026
Thing · Directive
A meta tag value and HTML class that stops Google from offering a translation of a page or of part of it.
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Google's Search documentation gives notranslate as a rule for a robots or googlebot meta tag or an X-Robots-Tag header, and says the rule opts a page out of all translation features in Google Search.
Google Search Central · Day 2 · Controlling indexing
A 2008 Search Central blog post says a meta tag named google with the value notranslate stops Google Translate from translating any of a page's content.
Search Central blog (14 October 2008) · Day 2 · Controlling indexing
Slide and stage claims that name it, the ones Google’s documentation does not cover first.
John Mueller said notranslate can also be set in a meta tag named google, and that in that form it also turns off Chrome's automatic translation of the page.
John Mueller · Day 2 · Controlling indexing
The notranslate robots rule tells Google not to offer a translation of the page in search results.
John Mueller · Day 2 · Controlling indexing
John Mueller said he dislikes notranslate because automatic translation is a form of accessibility for visitors who cannot read the page's language.
John Mueller · Day 2 · Controlling indexing
International sites should remove notranslate from their templates unless translation must be prevented: the robots or googlebot form switches off Google Search's translation features, and John Mueller said the form named google also blocks Chrome's translation for visitors who do not read the language.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Controlling indexing
Kit items about notranslate: their own words name it, or several of the claims they rest on do.
Rests on 8 claims, 5 of them naming notranslate; its own words name notranslate
Things named in the same claim, with the number of claims they share.