I have lots of traffic from various Google translate services. All these page/URL-translate servers from Google come from a Google-IP and never from any G-domain. Hence for some reason ALL pages displayed on Google translate servers always display my hotlink replacement banner instead of the original image. Similar situation for traffic coming FROM other G-IP based services. here a complete line as logged in my apache2.2 error_log and here below my current .htaccess hotlink relevant code: FYI - the "php" in above image protection rule is for the protection of my Blog-banner that is random selected by a php script - this part works. all hotlink protection works perfectly - except for all Google ( and may be Y ) IP based services that are considered hotlinkers because NOT in the exclude list of my code above. I would love to have in the "allowed sites" section of above rewrite code a code that allows sites with http://74.125.47.100/translate_c RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+/translate_c [NC] this above is my current trial/error solution that seems to work. but unsure if correct and secure. any help or suggestions for improvements and security arfe MOST welcome