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Google says sorry to Sohu for using their software

google pinyinGoogle has a little problem in China lately. It seems as though some software developed by a rival company ended up in a recently released Chinese software tool that Google 'developed'.

Google apologized once they were called out for after they found out about Sohu's software being inside of their Pinyin Input Method Editor. For their part, Google said that Sohu's software it was used during development of the application and that they utilized non-Google database resources to build the tool, but didn't say how they obtained the database used.

Since Google uncovered the issue, they have released a new version on Sunday that uses a new dictionary. Google Pinyin is a piece of free Google software that allows users to input Chinese characters using the alphabet keyboard without using the operating systems built in inputting system.

[via InfoWorld]
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