Google Admits to Using Sohu Database

Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday April 9, 2007 @11:46AM from the cut-and-paste dept.

prostoalex writes "A few days ago a Chinese company, Sohu.com, alleged Google improperly tapped its database for its Pinyin IME product, stirring controversy on whether two databases were similar just due to normal research process. Today Google admitted that its new product for Chinese market 'was built leveraging some non-Google database resources.' 'The dictionaries used with both software from Google and Sohu shared several common mistakes, where Chinese characters were matched with the wrong Pinyin equivalents. In addition, both dictionaries listed the names of engineers who had developed Sohu's Sogou Pinyin IME.'"

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This reminds me of by Diordna · 2007-04-09 11:57 · Score: 5, Interesting

"Stolen from Apple Computer" (whole story)
So... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-04-09 11:58 · Score: 5, Interesting

When caught making a mistake, they admit it, work to resolve it, and move on?
I think there are a few other companies who could learn from that approach ...