Google Translate API is now deprecated.

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Post by Klonoar » Fri, May 27, 2011, 3:49 AM UTC

Google Translate API is now deprecated.
code.google.com

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Post by esrauch » Fri, May 27, 2011, 6:51 AM UTC

It's interesting that the reason for this is 'extensive abuse', does anyone know if it is talking about the 'translate party' websites that translate back and forth in rapid succession.

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Post by corin_ » Fri, May 27, 2011, 7:20 AM UTC

A little more discussion on Google APIs being killed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2589635

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Post by wesley » Fri, May 27, 2011, 8:24 AM UTC

esrauch wrote: post #2

It's interesting that the reason for this is 'extensive abuse', does anyone know if it is talking about the 'translate party' websites that translate back and forth in rapid succession.

Perhaps to create "unique content" in other languages, to rank in the local google search engines.

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Post by JoachimSchipper » Fri, May 27, 2011, 8:27 AM UTC

esrauch wrote: post #2

It's interesting that the reason for this is 'extensive abuse', does anyone know if it is talking about the 'translate party' websites that translate back and forth in rapid succession.

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 (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.

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Post by franze » Fri, May 27, 2011, 9:29 AM UTC

here is my comment on the google code blogpost http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-s...

i recommend posting your disappointment there, too - as google obviously does not care about developers anymore (and so does also not care about hacker news discussions)

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Post by fun2have » Fri, May 27, 2011, 9:54 AM UTC

All I can say is give Micorsoft a try: http://www.microsofttranslator.com/dev/

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Post by ojilles » Fri, May 27, 2011, 11:03 AM UTC

esrauch wrote: post #2

It's interesting that the reason for this is 'extensive abuse', does anyone know if it is talking about the 'translate party' websites that translate back and forth in rapid succession.

Probably not entirely viable nor wanted, but this did give me the idea of Google Translate using steganography to detect translated text through Google Translate to spot abusers. Just by translating the texts a little bit different for each user.