Per this announcement - sort of Twitter-esque in that they seem to be using API shutdowns as a way of steering people towards their own apps, but the upshot is that after December 1st the only apps that will be able to use Google's translation services will be Google's.
Anyway, I suppose there's still Bing Translate, but this effectively kills a couple of Google-Translate-based features we'd been thinking of adding (embedding translations in search results, e.g.); on the plus side, none of our competitors will have access to them either (unless we consider Google a competitor), and this acts as another excellent argument for our strategy of relying primarily on offline resources and not depending too much on the whims of website owners.
Anyway, I suppose there's still Bing Translate, but this effectively kills a couple of Google-Translate-based features we'd been thinking of adding (embedding translations in search results, e.g.); on the plus side, none of our competitors will have access to them either (unless we consider Google a competitor), and this acts as another excellent argument for our strategy of relying primarily on offline resources and not depending too much on the whims of website owners.