Google stop translation feature: Alphabet’s Google on Monday said it shut down the Google Translate service in mainland China, citing low usage. The move marks the end of one of its last remaining products in the world’s second-largest economy. Google stop translation feature in mainland China.
The dedicated mainland China website for Google Translate now redirects users to the Hong Kong version of the service. However, this is not accessible from mainland China. “We are discontinuing Google Translate in mainland China due to low usage,” Google said in a statement.
Google has had a fraught relationship with the Chinese market. The U.S. technology giant pulled its search engine from China in 2010 because of strict government censorship online. Its other services such as Google Maps and Gmail are also effectively blocked by the Chinese government.
According to a New York Times report in 2010, Google had said that the hackers in China had stolen some of its source code and even broke into the Gmail accounts of some Chinese human rights advocates.
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The Mountain View-based search provider’s other services like Google Map and Gmail are also blocked by the Chinese government. China’s local search provider Baidu and social media platform Tencent have been dominating the local internet landscape. It had made its translation service available to the users in China in 2017 through a dedicated website and smartphone app.
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