Shameful Transliterate is going down too - apparently Google hates its South Asian users....
On May 29, 6:57 am, Zdravko Gligic <[email protected]> wrote: > Except if it was not for the fact that those economic burdens did not > happen overnight and the fact that they acted totally in bad faith by > following Translate v1 with v2. It is not like v1 was not around for > a few years and as if these economic burdens were sudden. All of that > adds up to an extreme case of ACTING IN BAD FAITH and which would most > likely succeed in a class action lawsuit that was waged by those who > got ruined by this bad faith. Obviously, to Google, copyrights and > TOS are something with which it wipes its but (when others' interests > are considered) and its face. > > > > > > > > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Google reserves the right in its discretion to cease providing all or > > any part of a Deprecated Version of the Service immediately without > > any notice if... (c) providing the Deprecated Version of the Service could > > create a > > substantial economic burden on Google as determined by Google in its > > reasonable good faith judgment." > > > Google has claimed that maintaining the Translate API is a economic burden > > because of the abuse of the API. The way this clause is written, they most > > certainly can discontinue the service today, without any notice. > > > Jeremy R. Geerdes > > Generally Cool Guy > > Des Moines, IA > > > For more information or a project quote: > > [email protected] > > > If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan > > Church! > > > On May 28, 2011, at 7:33 PM, peterburk wrote: > > >> Google isn't actually allowed to deprecate them in December. They must > >> continue unmaintained operation for at least 3 years for non- > >> experimental projects, including Translate API. > > >> In Google's Console API Terms of Use: > > >> 1.3 Deprecation. If Google in its discretion chooses to cease > >> providing the current version of the Service whether through > >> discontinuation of the Service or by upgrading the Service to a newer > >> version, the current version of the Service will be deprecated and > >> become a Deprecated Version of the Service. Google will issue an > >> announcement if the current version of the Service will be deprecated. > >> For a period of 3 years after an announcement (the "Deprecation > >> Period"), Google will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue > >> to operate the Deprecated Version of the Service and to respond to > >> problems with the Deprecated Version of the Service deemed by Google > >> in its discretion to be critical. 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