To fully understand the predicament for users of the API, it is essential to know how the widget worked. As discussed in the previous point, when users propagate machine translation with no human improvement, and then that content is indexed by Google, the pool of material used to train the MT engine is polluted with inaccurate translation causing a downward spiral in the quality of the database.īut let's move back to the impact the deprecated API has on customers. Contaminating indexed content – the initial power of Google Translate came from the pure power of having an almost infinite amount of human-translated content indexed and available as the basis for handling machine translation.Unfortunately, many companies were using the API as a commercial service for a charge and provided no improvement to the content. This workflow would have produced higher-quality translated content to strengthen Google’s search business.
Abuse of the terms of use for the API – The intended use of the API was to provide a translation into environments where the content would be refined, improved, and help to train the machine translation engine.Economic burden – While the Google Translate API was very popular, some people think that the financial burden of providing the service, processing the content, and storing the translated content was a monetary headache with little benefit to Google.You might ask, why would Google pull the plug on such a successful technology? Industry experts believe Google deprecated the service for a number of reasons:
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