Google Announces APIs Scheduled for Shutdown
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Google Announces APIs Scheduled for Shutdown
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#2They're shutting down the translate API? I hope they're releasing a replacement - it's incredibly powerful, though I can't see how it commercially benefits them.
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#3They're shutting down the translate API? I hope they're releasing a replacement - it's incredibly powerful, though I can't see how it commercially benefits them.
That one surprised me the most. Message at http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html:
"The Google Translate API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011. Due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse, the number of requests you may make per day will be limited and the API will be shut off completely on December 1, 2011. For website translations, we encourage you to use the Google Translate Element."
Surely "abuse" means they built something people want. Sad that they don't seem to think it would be worth their while to charge for it.
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#4They're shutting down the translate API? I hope they're releasing a replacement - it's incredibly powerful, though I can't see how it commercially benefits them.
That one surprised me the most. Message at http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html : "The Google Translate API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011. Due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse, the number of requests you may make per day will be limited and the API will be shut off completely on December 1, 2011. For website translations, we encourage you to use…
The "abuse" is easily organized charging for the service and including a TOS. I hope they realize that there is a business adding APIs and offering a self service console like adwords.
I call it: "Google NoAPIs". And I even wrote an article about it at: http://blog.databigbang.com/google-search-no-api/
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#5Shutting down the Wave API seems to be the final nail in the coffin since they decided to discontinue Google Wave, in August of last year.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave...
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#6My coworker and I spent the last several months building an iPad app on top of the News Search API. And now all that work is for naught! That is a serious bummer.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
That one surprised me the most. Message at http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html : "The Google Translate API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011. Due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse, the number of requests you may make per day will be limited and the API will be shut off completely on December 1, 2011. For website translations, we encourage you to use…
The "abuse" is easily organized charging for the service and including a TOS. I hope they realize that there is a business adding APIs and offering a self service console like adwords. I call it: "Google NoAPIs". And I even wrote an article about it at: http://blog.databigbang.com/google-search-no-api/
Or at /least/ allowing people to cache the resulting data... it was downright stupid that the Translate API's terms of service demanded that, even if a hundred thousand people all wanted a single sentence translated, you could not save the result of the single call and reuse it: you had to have all hundred thousand of those people make their own request.
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#8There seems to be at least one lesson here for developers relying on Google's good will.
Take your pick:
a) Don't rely on Google to keep services around forever
b) Ain't no such thing as a free lunch
c) Google has only one true product, and it's advertising
d)
Despite extraordinary profits, Google is really starting to tighten the reigns. I'm guessing that speaks to a feeling of market saturation. They may no longer be on a breakneck growth curve like in the old days.
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#9They're shutting down the translate API? I hope they're releasing a replacement - it's incredibly powerful, though I can't see how it commercially benefits them.
maybe it's an issue that they are worried competitors will use the API to reverse engineer parts of the core algorithm?
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#10They're shutting down the translate API? I hope they're releasing a replacement - it's incredibly powerful, though I can't see how it commercially benefits them.
That one surprised me the most. Message at http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html : "The Google Translate API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011. Due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse, the number of requests you may make per day will be limited and the API will be shut off completely on December 1, 2011. For website translations, we encourage you to use…
Perhaps "abuse" means toys like this: http://www.translationparty.com/