{"id":12158,"date":"2007-04-09T23:04:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T06:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/09\/google-evades-question-about-software-similarities-pc-world\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T23:04:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T06:04:07","slug":"google-evades-question-about-software-similarities-pc-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/google-evades-question-about-software-similarities-pc-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Evades Question About Software Similarities &#8211; PC World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google IME\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/Google%20IME.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"54\" align=\"right\"\/><\/p>\n<p>From PC World:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Google Inc. has commented on a new software tool it released in China this week, although it did not address allegations that the software bears more than a passing resemblance to a rival&#8217;s product.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two days ago we launched our Chinese Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME) as a test product in Google Labs. Based on feedback from users and our own testing, we made a number of updates to the product this morning. Like all Labs releases our IME product is a work in progress, and we expect to continue to improve it over time,&#8221; Google said via email on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after its release, some users began to notice similarities between the dictionary used with Google&#8217;s IME and a popular offering from Chinese rival Sohu.com Inc.&#8217;s Sogou search engine.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,130459-c,techindustrytrends\/article.html\">[Full Text]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHere is a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/tools.google.com\/pinyin\/\">Google&#8217;s Pinyin IME<\/a> for those interested in the allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From PC World: &#8220;Google Inc. has commented on a new software tool it released in China this week, although it did not address allegations that the software bears more than a passing resemblance to a rival&#8217;s product. &#8220;Two days ago we launched our Chinese Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME) as a test product in Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5908,16142,730],"class_list":["post-12158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-google","tag-internet-culture","tag-language","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google Evades Question About Software Similarities - PC World<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/google-evades-question-about-software-similarities-pc-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google Evades Question About Software Similarities - PC World\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From PC World: &#8220;Google Inc. has commented on a new software tool it released in China this week, although it did not address allegations that the software bears more than a passing resemblance to a rival&#8217;s product. &#8220;Two days ago we launched our Chinese Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME) as a test product in Google [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/google-evades-question-about-software-similarities-pc-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-04-10T06:04:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/Google%20IME.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Eric Kaltman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Eric Kaltman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/google-evades-question-about-software-similarities-pc-world\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/google-evades-question-about-software-similarities-pc-world\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Eric Kaltman\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/c3b5beb1569952c8fb32da3152a0ff80\"},\"headline\":\"Google Evades Question About Software Similarities &#8211; 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