This is a very strange movement. Abuse? Google has the tools to restrict
access to its APIs whenever they want!
Probably, programmers will move to Bing Translator or wait for Google to
offer a new non-free API. They could also use Apertium API (http:://
api.apertium.org), but I guess the amount of resources available for
Apertium API is significantly smaller than those at Google's.
Juan Antonio
2011/5/27 Mikel L. Forcada <m...@dlsi.ua.es>
> Folks: breaking news.
>
> "Important: 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."
>
> http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html
>
> "MT vendors are going to profit from this. Now that the biggest source of
> free
> translation is soon to be gone, demand for MT software will increase" —
> Dave
> Grunwald, gts-translation.com
>
>
> http://blog.gts-translation.com/2011/05/27/breaking-news-google-to-shut-down-translate-api/
>
> I haven't had time to think about the implications for Apertium. But one is
> that
> we are going to get more OmegaT requests soon.
>
> All the best!
>
> Mikel
>
> Mikel L. Forcada <m...@dlsi.ua.es>
> Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics
> Universitat d\\\'Alacant, E-03071 Alacant (Spain)
> Tel.: +34 96 590 9776 Fax: +34 96 590 9326
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