I am happy to see Google selling clever things like this. I feel that in the long term it's their future, more than advertising.
Google to offer for-pay Translate API
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#12a new revenue stream, sweet. To bad Facebook and Bing are winning the web away.
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#13If they had just announced they would be charging for it people would also be upset. By announcing they're shutting it down, then backpedaling a little by offering to charge for it developers can't be as upset. Genius!
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#14a new revenue stream, sweet. To bad Facebook and Bing are winning the web away.
Its true, facebook is making a new type of internet. Its hardly about search anymore, now people search facebook for content. Social networks are a fad like anything else but they are winning now.
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#15a new revenue stream, sweet. To bad Facebook and Bing are winning the web away.
Its true, facebook is making a new type of internet. Its hardly about search anymore, now people search facebook for content. Social networks are a fad like anything else but they are winning now.
Wait what? People search on Facebook for content? Maybe for content of what their friends are up to. I've never considered a social networking site to be a search engine, and considering Facebook's abysmal attempts at targeted marketing (their ads SUCK at relevance) no matter how many time I tell it that a certain ad is of no relevance. I just don't see how Facebook is "winning the web war". Maybe I have different friends than most, but pretty much everyone I know uses a search engine to find things. Even my mom, who isn't what I would call computer savy.
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#16This made me consider the problem relying on shitstorms for feedback. The problem might be unrelated (for example, this might have been engineered in advance as a way of minimizing the negative reception of the decision).
That is, in sufficiently large consumer bases, is it safe to rely on shitstorms for negative feedback on business decisions?
Some groups have outspoken representatives that can get the word out there so that it can snowball into something that can be noticed.
However, what if the average emotional response to the decision had been the same, but no shitstorm was raised? Does it happen often? In what conditions?
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Its true, facebook is making a new type of internet. Its hardly about search anymore, now people search facebook for content. Social networks are a fad like anything else but they are winning now.
Wait what? People search on Facebook for content? Maybe for content of what their friends are up to. I've never considered a social networking site to be a search engine, and considering Facebook's abysmal attempts at targeted marketing (their ads SUCK at relevance) no matter how many time I tell it that a certain ad is of no relevance. I just don't see how Facebook is "winning the web war". Maybe I have different fr…
They are winning the web war since their messaging has basically completely displaced AIM, MSN and GChat in the US in the 16-26 year olds. Its also put a decent dent into email for asynch communication, and I only expect that to continue.
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#18I have a feeling their federal sales office out in D.C. would do very well if they could package this up as a network appliance.
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#19I am happy to see Google selling clever things like this. I feel that in the long term it's their future, more than advertising.
I have exactly the same sentiment. One of my big fears about Google is that, similar to what happened with Java and Sun, they will ride on their easy money to make cool things and then one day when / if ad revenue dies off (or hell, even just stops growing) it will all go away or get sold to hostile competitors.
In this light, seeing Google actively driving commercial sense into their services and cancelling those that will never fly is, while disappointing, also reassuring.
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>Granted, they support a lot less languages, but for the supported ones, MyGengo sounds like a much better option, unless Google manages to improve their translation and beat MyGengo pricing. As far as I know, MyGengo doesn't do in house manchine translations. Am I wrong?
I'm not sure whether they do it in-house or outsource, but they do provide it. From http://mygengo.com/services/api/#benefits page: You can also get free machine translation through our API - so no need to switch between services. Just pick and choose which of your content you want done by humans, and which by machines. It’s easy and free to start with machine translation, and then upgrade for popular content.
Hey guys
We currently source our API's machine translation from Google, but we're going to be connecting to several other providers in the next few months. Depending on Google's pricing model we may or may not include them in the roster.
We think it's best to connect to our API, because you can 'upgrade' to human translation without switching out code (it's just a single parameter in an API call).
If you want to try us out, we're currently running a $25-credits-free campaign to switch to our API. http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/translation-apis-google-shuttin...
(CEO, myGengo)