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A debate is emerging on the internet whether Google has for its newly released pinyin input system stolen the vocabulary of its competitor Sogou. When the US search engine would have committed such a ...

Google does not include a preinstalled way to type in Chinese on an Android device, but it does offer an official application that adds this feature to your smartphone. By downloading the Google ...

Today’s Google doodle pays homage to the Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang on what would have been his 112th birthday. Youguang helped create the Chinese phonetic alphabet called Pinyin. He spent three ...

Chinese Internet company Sohu.com has asked Google to stop distributing a product that allegedly copies portions of Sohu’s Sogou Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME) software. The Sohu request came in the ...

Sohu.com on Tuesday threatened to sue Google for violating its intellectual property rights, and renewed a demand for the company to stop downloads of a Chinese software tool based, in part, on one of ...