[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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