Google to Start Charging for Prediction API

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by sinzone • 16 years ago

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Garbage• 16 years ago

Now, they talking business.

VMG• 16 years ago

Does anyone have examples of apps that actually use the prediction API?

harryf• 16 years ago

Wanted to use it with Google Analytics for a kind of recommendation engine of the form "users that liked this page also liked...". But they never approved my request and a 60k request limit won't cut it either.

sinzone• 16 years ago

an alternative: http://www.directededge.com/ (YC startup)

nowarninglabel• 16 years ago

I'm using it in an app, since my request did get approved, but it's very rudimentary at the moment as I am still exploring it. I'll be sure to report back to HN at the point it is in full use.

srean• 16 years ago

To me a big weakness of the prediction API when I checked it out was that it cannot handle (i) missing values or (ii) sparse data formats. Both are very common in real life data.

staunch• 16 years ago

Absolute limit of 60k means it's not worth investing in if there's a chance you will hit that limit.

tybris• 16 years ago

Somehow, Google APIs always end up broken like that. Why don't they just have the balls to scale up like Amazon does?

I guess it might change. Google App Engine is finally beginning to make sense, be it mainly for intranet applications.

borism• 16 years ago

I see you two have some pretty big plans on your mind! Care to share what is it you're building that 60000 predictions per day just won't cut it?

snissn• 16 years ago

it also means that it's not something that they're using internally for anything important either

lazyjeff• 16 years ago

Does anyone know what machine learning algorithms they use?

d0mine• 16 years ago

btw, you don't need Prediction API to detect a language. One could use Translate API [1]:

  >>> detect_language_v2("Tous pour un, un pour tous, c'est notre devise", open('api_key.txt').read().rstrip())
  [u'fr']

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4545977/python-can-i-dete...

Google to Start Charging for Prediction API

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