The Google Translate API has been officially deprecated

http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/language/translate/overview.html

by w43l • 15 years ago

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wccrawford• 15 years ago

I wonder what they consider 'abuse' to be. I was thinking about writing a dictionary app, and hooking into that API as a secondary translation would have been nice.

I wouldn't consider that abuse... Not even if it was the primary translation.

But I can't figure what people would be doing that was abusive?

dredge• 15 years ago

I will hazard a guess that people were using it to 'spin' content for SEO purposes, by automatically translating others' content to foreign languages and back again.

If so, I imagine the double resource drain of doing that and then Googlebot indexing all that useless content would be a compelling reason to turn it off.

cuchoperl2• 15 years ago

Also, its difficult to monetize the API, for example, with ads.

cuchoperl2• 15 years ago

What good alternative Translation APIs are out there?

The Google Translate API has been officially deprecated

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