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I would also be wary to build a business on Googles good will. They are shutting down many API from finance, news search and translation.
by ralfd 15y ago
I would also be wary to build a business on Googles good will. They are shutting down many API from finance, news search and translation.
- chalst 15y agoGoogle do have a preannounced path throught deprecation to termination and they claim [w]herever possible, the documentation includes suggested alternatives designed to help you achieve similar functionality — whether it’s a new version or related offering. http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-some-of-our-apis.html http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-s... In the case of the translation APIs, they were clearly broken and facilitated content spamming, and the replacement APIs appear to be serviceable.
- throwaway32 15y agoThere is no "replacement API" for Google translate.
- r00fus 15y agoYou mean no google replacement translation API? What about bing or mygengo or wordlingo?
- esrauch 15y agoI thought they announced that they were going to launch a paid Translate api?
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- robert_mygengo 15y agoEsrauch is right — but they have not announced details.
- chalst 15y agoThat is right, at least not yet. I have a vague recollection of reading some details of how the substitute API would work, but that must be spurious since Google have officially left the matter open to now.