JoomFish/jf-future — Issue #9: Google Translate no longer available
Author: quodo
Created: 2012-01-13 13:54:00+00:00
State: open

(From old thread: https://github.com/JoomFish/jf-future/pull/1)
**Quodo:**
F - Tried "Translated powered by Google" (nice feature!)
Shows alert box: "Please use Translate v2. See http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html" --> API v1 is no longer available per December 1, 2011.
**GeraintEdwards** replied
F. Klas is looking at this.

Update: Button no longer works. The link http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html now has this information:
*Important: Google Translate API v2 is now available as a paid service only, and the number of requests your application can make per day is limited. As of December 1, 2011, Google Translate API v1 is no longer available; it was officially deprecated on May 26, 2011. These decisions were made due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse. For website translations, we encourage you to use the Google Website Translator gadget.*
Where information on the paid service is found here: http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/v2/pricing.html.

It seems that this service is no longer available for free. Does this mean the button, and the code behind it should be removed?