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Google Faces Plagiarism Questions Over Chinese Software
yaohua2000 writes "Google's laboratory in China has launched its first product, a Pinyin Input Method Editor. The software allows the romanized characters to be translated to more traditional Chinese symbols , via entering on a QWERTY keyboard. Users soon discovered that the data Google used for the product was unusually similar to the data used by a Chinese rival, Sogou. Google has evaded the question about software similarities, reports PC World. 'The similarities, which included an error involving the name of a celebrity, were noted on a Google Labs discussion board about its Pinyin IME. Users noted that entering the Pinyin pinggong into the Google IME incorrectly produced the name of Feng Gong, an actor and comedian.'"
Blame the Sogou authors, and call them inhuman. Also say it isn't plagarism because it's beta.
Let me be the first to say... WHAT?
bashing - or trying to bash Google is a sure way to increase hits these days.
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shall i make a comment about the us being nothing but greedy lying bullies because microsoft or diebold is from the us? Well, if you did make such a comment, and it was relevant, it probably would get modded insightful.
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That's funny, because your excerpt reminds me of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. :)
They have a copy of the internet! A COPY! How much of that do you think is copyrighted?
This confirms it: meta-discussion of Slashdot makes for karma whoring. Now, can I recurse again and have that be the case?
WTF?! So that's why "lkjsdflkjsaf" made it into my term paper!
Google has learned how to do business in China.
Congrats to them.