Good, google admitted it. I bet google contracted a Chinese company to supply them the database though. Apart from that, basically every piece of IP the USA has ever created has been copied by the Chinese and profit has been made. But, that doesnt make it right, and google needs to come 100% clean because if we start doing what the Chinese do to us, then there will be no more good people left in the world...
I live in China and am fluent in Mandarin + simplified writing, can't remember what I wrote but I probably wasn't clear in my previous post about the IME but I do know how it works since I use standard pinyin=>character every day. I haven't tried google's new tool though (yet). I highly doubt it will be used though since it uses Pinyin and most Chinese prefer the Shuangpin method (not me). And on top of the the fact that google gets blocked on demand by the government here means that google is not reliable in China with consistent server not found errors. Although not directly related to the IME but the google 'suite' is pretty much useless and they probably want to link the IME in with that.
My mistake about Sohu, but I do believe it was owned by baidu or the other way around earlier on, or not;)
My main point though is that Western IP has been routinely copied for years in China and they all think they are so much smarter than us because they let us do the work (severe generalisation of course), China doesn't really have any original IP to speak of whatsoever. This is the first time I've heard of a western company copying off a Chinese company although I'm not saying it hasn't happened before.
I think if Google did copy, it should apologise and discontinue that code. Not because its fair but because if we start doing what the Chinese do then sooner or later we will run out of honest people in the world.
Oh and the wife is Chinese and completely agrees so don't be calling me politically incorrect;)
Wow, so the Chinese have been copying western IP for the last 30 years, basically EVERYTHING they have is copied from western companies. Now they complain about Google using the same phonetic sounds to character conversion? Haha taste of their own medicine for once...
Go and take a look at Baidu www.baidu.com, China's number 1 search engine, (its a copy of google) which owns sogou, (the company accusing google of copying their input engine).
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Good, google admitted it. I bet google contracted a Chinese company to supply them the database though. Apart from that, basically every piece of IP the USA has ever created has been copied by the Chinese and profit has been made. But, that doesnt make it right, and google needs to come 100% clean because if we start doing what the Chinese do to us, then there will be no more good people left in the world...
I live in China and am fluent in Mandarin + simplified writing, can't remember what I wrote but I probably wasn't clear in my previous post about the IME but I do know how it works since I use standard pinyin=>character every day. I haven't tried google's new tool though (yet). I highly doubt it will be used though since it uses Pinyin and most Chinese prefer the Shuangpin method (not me). And on top of the the fact that google gets blocked on demand by the government here means that google is not reliable in China with consistent server not found errors. Although not directly related to the IME but the google 'suite' is pretty much useless and they probably want to link the IME in with that.
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My mistake about Sohu, but I do believe it was owned by baidu or the other way around earlier on, or not
My main point though is that Western IP has been routinely copied for years in China and they all think they are so much smarter than us because they let us do the work (severe generalisation of course), China doesn't really have any original IP to speak of whatsoever. This is the first time I've heard of a western company copying off a Chinese company although I'm not saying it hasn't happened before.
I think if Google did copy, it should apologise and discontinue that code. Not because its fair but because if we start doing what the Chinese do then sooner or later we will run out of honest people in the world.
Oh and the wife is Chinese and completely agrees so don't be calling me politically incorrect
Thats my 2c anyway.
Wow, so the Chinese have been copying western IP for the last 30 years, basically EVERYTHING they have is copied from western companies. Now they complain about Google using the same phonetic sounds to character conversion? Haha taste of their own medicine for once...
Go and take a look at Baidu www.baidu.com, China's number 1 search engine, (its a copy of google) which owns sogou, (the company accusing google of copying their input engine).