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Google is to close down its popular Translate applicationprogramming interface by the end of the year, owing to what it claims is'extensive abuse' by users of the service.
GoogleTranslate is one of the most popular machine translation servicesaround, offering users of the Google search engine, Google Chromebrowser, and Android smartphones the ability to translate a wide varietyof languages to or from their native tongues.
To popularise theservice and to encourage its use, Google launched the Translate API - aprogramming interface that allowed coders to integrate Google Translatefunctionality into their websites and applications. Its use iswidespread, but that's not stopping the advertising giant from shuttingits doors at the end of the year.
According to a note quietly posted to the Google Translate API Code page
late yesterday,the service is now officially deprecated - and its users will see thenumber of requests they are able to make each day limited until iteventually ceases completely on the 1st of December this year.
Thereason, Google claims, is a "substantial economic burden caused byextensive abuse." Quite what abuse has led to a company which isgenerally considered to have enough bandwidth and processing power torun the entire Internet twice over finding the service a 'substantialburden' isn't detailed in the terse note.
The news will come as adisappointment to programmers that have worked to include translationfacilities in their applications via the API, and while the alternativeof an embedded Translation function via the Google Web Elements serviceis available, it's far from ideal.
Google's decision to shutterthe service gives its rivals in the machine translation space anopportunity - and with Microsoft offering
SOAP, HTTP, and AJAX interfaces to its own Translator service, Google's loss could spell a major win for Microsoft and its Bing search engine.
The Translate API is to be joined in closure by a raft of otherinterfaces, including those used for books data, blog searches, newssearches, image searches, video searches, and the seldom-used VirtualKeyboard API. A full list of APIs affected is available on Google's Codeblog.
Weasked Google exactly what constituted 'extensive abuse,' but were toldby a spokesperson that the company has 'no more detail to share' on thematter.