Southern Metropolis Daily: Google apologizes to users

GOOGLE, an Internet giant that has been accused of being unlocalized, suddenly fell into a pre-empty PR crisis in its third year in China.
Although there are already several good input methods available on the market, Lee Kai-Fu launched GOOGLE's input method 600 days ago, which is also a move to enter GOOGLE's Lee Kai-Fu to seize the desktop market and localization. However, Sohu published a public statement on the 8 th, accusing Google of using the background Dictionary of the input method, "stealing" Sogou's input method, and holding a press conference on the 9 th, demonstrate "plagiarism evidence" to the media ".
Netizens question Google plagiarism
On July 6, April 4, Google held a press conference to launch pinyin input methods in China and claimed to be able to take care of users' personalized input habits. This was seen as an important step for Google's localization in China.
However, a few hours after the product was launched, it was questioned by netizens. On some forums, some netizens pointed out that the input method was suspected of plagiarism and theft, and provided conclusive evidence, this proves that the input method has stolen the Sogou Pinyin input Dictionary. Netizens insisted that the Sogou dictionary fingerprint was found in Google's input method. Subsequently, the user uploaded the fingerprint and screenshots of the Sogou Input dictionary in Google's input method to various forums. For a time, the internet is full of questions about GOOGLE.
Sogou Pinyin input method is an independent search engine of Sohu. It was released in June 5 last year.
Sohu asked Google to stop stealing
A few days later, Sohu issued a formal statement about "GOOGLE Pinyin is suspected of stealing the Sogou Pinyin input Dictionary", accusing GOOGLE of illegally stealing the Sogou Pinyin input dictionary, and expressed strong indignation.
In a statement issued to this newspaper, Sohu said: "After technical authentication by our technical staff, GOOGLE's pinyin input dictionary is indeed a direct theft of the Sogou Pinyin input Dictionary (including and not limited to the 1.5beta2 version, including word table and corresponding phonetic alphabet )."
"We are furious at Google's illegal and effective access to and direct theft of our Sogou Pinyin input Dictionary ." According to Sohu Public Relations Ministry, Google's above-mentioned initiatives are "ignoring Sogou's technical achievements" and do not comply with the "legitimate integrity" and "respect for business ethics" positions.
Lu Jieyong, a dictionary development engineer in the Sogou Input method group, said that no dictionary in the world contains all the words required for the input method. To prevent Sogou's dictionary from being stolen, Sogou added its dictionary fingerprint at the beginning of its establishment.
Sohu marketing department manager Zeng said that although GOOGLE's initiatives are currently under observation, but GOOGLE only apologized, Sohu is not satisfied and does not rule out the possibility of legal access. Sohu has sent a lawyer's letter to the other party, but has not yet received a document from the legal department of the other party. "Sohu has been very tolerant in this incident. Sohu is discussing the details of economic compensation with lawyers ."
Google acknowledges dictionary theft
On July 6, April 6, Google's input method was quietly upgraded. The new version of Google's input method removed some obvious dictionary fingerprints from Sogou's input method. When reporters used the latest version of Google's input method, they found that several "dictionary fingerprints" published by Sohu had disappeared from the font.