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-Google has [issued an apology][2] for using data lifted from a rival Chinese search company. An  update to Google's Chinese search portal added a new tool called the Pinyin Input Method Editor which allows a user to input characters in Pinyin, a phonetic system for writing Chinese characters in Roman letters.
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-Unfortunately for Google the initial release of its Pinyin tool used a dictionary of Chinese words and characters stolen from rival search company Sohu. The dictionary is used to offer auto-complete suggestions for Pinyin based on matching Chinese words and names to their Pinyin equivalents.
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-The conflict was discovered because the Sohu engineers had added their names to Sudo dictionary for convenience and those names showed up in Google's predictive auto-complete.
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-Sohu complained about the use of its dictionary last week, but Chinese users had already pointed out similarities between the two shortly after the release of the Google tool.
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-Sohu then demanded that Google stop using its Pinyin IME dictionary and asked for an apology -- giving Google three days (until today) to reply.
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-Although Google still hasn't said how the Sohu dictionary came to be in Google's software, they have since removed it and offered an [apology on the Chinese language Google blog][1].
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-[1]: http://googlechinablog.com/2007/04/blog-post.html "Google Apology"
-[2]: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_5626965 "Google apologizes to Chinese search co."
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