[ab]using google for a proxy :)
just happened to stumble on the this article which tells u how to use google translator as a proxy :)
the funda is simple.. someimes ur network admin might block some sites (for whatever the reason it might be).. now if u wanna access the site, u can ask google to do it for u ;)
use google translator n translate from whatever the language the site is in to the same language.. mostly it's english to english..
use the following url to do it: http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=[ur site].. google translator happily translates the page from english to english n shows it :) it works coz almost never does anyone block google :) (unless it's a strictly internal n/w)

of course google translator was never meant to be used like this :D but well, it has happened as with any other popular service.. as far as I can remember, GMail was the first google service to be [ab]used like this with the GMail File System..
this probably isn't even abusing the service.. it's just that the service is good.. this's just a creative use of the service :)
neways, there might just be one problem with this.. this isn't a proxy as such n so ur IP is visible outside.. but that mightn't matter.. does it?
read the complete story here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/4807