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A debate is emerging on the internet whether Google has for its newly released pinyin input system stolen the vocabulary of its competitor Sogou. When the US search engine would have committed such a ...

Chinese Internet users are up in arms against Google, which today formally apologized for stealing a Chinese competitor’s database and using it in their newly released pinyin translator. Pinyin is a ...

Google on Monday issued a brief apology for using part of a software application developed by rival Sohu.com in a recently released Chinese software tool of its own. "We want to face this problem ...

Chinese Internet company Sohu.com has asked Google to stop distributing a product that allegedly copies portions of Sohu’s Sogou Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME) software. The Sohu request came in the ...

Google does not include a preinstalled way to type in Chinese on an Android device, but it does offer an official application that adds this feature to your smartphone. By downloading the Google ...

Today’s Google doodle pays homage to the Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang on what would have been his 112th birthday. Youguang helped create the Chinese phonetic alphabet called Pinyin. He spent three ...

Yesterday Google released its pinyin type input in China. Keso found out that it could not input “two” by inputing “er”. This is a rather serious bug. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest ...

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Google on Monday issued a brief apology for using part of a software application developed by rival Sohu.com in a recently released Chinese software tool of its own. “We want to face this problem ...

Google Inc. Monday issued a brief apology for using part of a software application developed by rival Sohu.com Inc. in a recently released Chinese software tool of its own. “We want to face this ...