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That seems unlikely - there aren't too many, they don't make that many calls, and Google could just shut them down. I think http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
by JoachimSchipper 15y ago
That seems unlikely - there aren't too many, they don't make that many calls, and Google could just shut them down.
I think http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2590551 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2590551 (andymurd) presents a more likely explanation:
> I think the "abuse" they are referring to is the common practise among blackhats of using Google Translate to spin stolen content to make it unique. Translating English -> $LANGUAGE -> English makes for a cheap, low grade article rewriter.
- oelewapperke 15y agoBut if you know what you're doing dozens of google api's are useful for this. I mean linguistics may not be all that far as a science, but it's advanced enough to whip some letters around without totally changing the meaning of the text. Google book search, for example, or google search itself, could easily be used for it.