Google
Translate
Google Translate is a free statical multilingual machine-translation service
provided by Google Inc. to translate written text from one language into
another.
Before October 2007, for languages other than Arabic, Chinese and Russian,
Google used a SYSTRAN based translator which is used by other translation
services such as Babel Fish, AQL, and Yahoo.
On May 26, 2011, Google announced that the Google Translate API had been
deprecated and that it would cease functioning on December 1, 2011, "due
to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse."The shutting
down of the API, used by a number of websites, led to criticism of Google and
to developers questioning the viability of using Google APIs in their products.
On June 3, 2011, Google announced that they were cancelling the plan to
terminate the Translate API due to public pressure. In the same announcement,
Google said that it would release a paid version of the Translate API.
