Google shuts down its translation API

Asia Online CEO Dion Wiggins gives an excellent informed analysis of Google's decision to shut down its translation API and improve its control over content quality. He says Google in reality has been "polluting its own drinking water by crawling and processing local language web content that has been published without any human proof reading after being translated using the Google Translate API."

Part II of the analysis, including the impact of the decision on the professional translation industry, can be found here.