The Google Translate API has been officially deprecated

Post by wccrawford » Fri, May 27, 2011, 11:05 AM UTC

Post by cuchoperl » Fri, May 27, 2011, 2:25 PM UTC

dredge wrote: post #3

wccrawford wrote: post #2

I wonder what they consider 'abuse' to be. I was thinking about writing a dictionary app, and hooking into that API as a secondary translation would have been nice. I wouldn't consider that abuse... Not even if it was the primary translation. But I can't figure what people would be doing that was abusive?

I will hazard a guess that people were using it to 'spin' content for SEO purposes, by automatically translating others' content to foreign languages and back again. If so, I imagine the double resource drain of doing that and then Googlebot indexing all that useless content would be a compelling reason to turn it off.