From 79fafe2f44f5e31522dd93013950474342bfdfb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: luxagraf Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 15:48:55 -0500 Subject: archived all the stuff from freelancing for wired --- .../Monkey_Bites/2007/04.09.07/Mon/googlecodetheft.txt | 14 -------------- 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.09.07/Mon/googlecodetheft.txt (limited to 'published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.09.07/Mon/googlecodetheft.txt') diff --git a/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.09.07/Mon/googlecodetheft.txt b/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.09.07/Mon/googlecodetheft.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e954089..0000000 --- a/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.09.07/Mon/googlecodetheft.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ -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. - -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. - -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. - -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. - -Sohu then demanded that Google stop using its Pinyin IME dictionary and asked for an apology -- giving Google three days (until today) to reply. - -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]. - -[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." \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2