[opensource-dev] in-viewer translation is dead soon.

Tateru Nino tateru at taterunino.net
Sun May 29 06:34:04 PDT 2011


It's true - they're basically monetizing it. Incompletely, to be sure,
but that's better than killing the whole system.

On 29/05/2011 9:39 PM, Daniel wrote:
> You didn't read my previous comment apparently.  They are NOT shutting 
> off all translations.
> They are shutting the freestanding translation page in favor of embedded 
> translation web
> elements within pages.  The "why" is the freestanding page doesn't make 
> them any money,
> while translating web pages *which have Google ads included* gets more 
> readers for the ads,
> thus makes money.  That is entirely sensible from a business point of 
> view, although annoying
> for people used to using their service as it has been.
>
> For the built-in translator in recent viewers the choices are (1) delete 
> the feature, (2) find a
> way to use their web elements component, or someone else's service, or 
> (3) host translation
> software on LL servers so you are not dependent on the whims of a cloud 
> based service
> provider.
>
> On 5/29/2011 12:47 AM, Marc Adored wrote:
>> One thing I am
>> not sure about is why google is just shutting it down instead of
>> making the throttling permanent...
>>
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