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Introducing Google Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API and New Data Center

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Re: Introducing Google Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API and New Data Center

#14
post #9

So how long until these new services get summarily discontinued?

Seriously, there's no way I would use Google APIs for anything production at this point.

Well, if you want uptime that's better than AWS then I would.

Re: Introducing Google Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API and New Data Center

#19
Accuracy still seems to leave a fair bit to be desired. For example, when parsing "Blue, Brown, Orange, Green and Red Lines were running normally" from this news article [1], "Blue" was interpreted as the color [2], "Brown" was interpreted as the Brown Bears football team [3], "Orange" was interpreted as the Orange Line Washington (not Chicago) Metro [4], "Green" was interpreted as "environmentally friendly" [5], and "Red lines" was interpreted as the organization (but without a Wikipedia page).

Works pretty well on places, though.

[1] http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/02/02/dangerous-blizzards-w...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Bears_football

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Line_(Washington_Metro)

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentally_friendly

Re: Introducing Google Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API and New Data Center

#20
post #9

So how long until these new services get summarily discontinued?

Between negative comments about Google's service lifecycle, choice of font/colors on a page and general nitpicking of every little detail on a linked page or someone's comment I'm getting fed up. It's gratuitously negative and repetitive to see this kind of stuff every day. If I wanted that kind of negativity and snideness I'd be using reddit.

Maybe some kind of "meta" comment section is the solution so we can have discussions about or derived from the content in one section and the folks that want to bash the company/person/font/colors/title/grammar/credentials/etc. can use the other.

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