Google Pinyin

[Kerim Friedman]

Did you know Google (which just released Google Desktop for the Mac)
is in the pinyin input method business?

http://tools.google.com/pinyin/index.html

Windows only right now, and judging from this review it seems that QIM
doesn't have a thing to worry about:

http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/04/china-google-pinyin-type-input/

kerim

[Weiyun Yu]

Not sure. Based on what I've read on Chinese forums, it's supposed to be
pretty good. I tried to install it on my copy of Windows XP but somehow it
screwed up my tool bar. So I removed it again quickly... --WY

Kerim Friedman at oxu...@gmail.com wrote on 4/4/07 19:11:

[Steven Paul Day]

I just did an install on my MacBook (Parallels and XP). Thus far, it
works fine. I like the interface and palette much better than the MS
IME. Haven't really tested it yet, however, since I doubt that it will
be getting much use.

[Weizhong Yang]

Well, I just downloaded it and had a try. Since I am a Zhuyin user (and a participant of an open-source input method project), a new Pinyin input method is not attractive to me, I just want to know about what Google wants to do about Chinese input methods.

However, when I tried to type my name with Google pinyin, it gave a terrible result like this picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zonble/446308840/. I never know about that the best candidate of typing "Yang Wei Zhong" in their database is it. 

在 2007/4/4 下午 5:11 時，Kerim Friedman 寫到：

Did you know Google (which just released Google Desktop for the Mac)

is in the pinyin input method business?

http://tools.google.com/pinyin/index.html

Windows only right now, and judging from this review it seems that QIM

doesn't have a thing to worry about:

--

"No, I won't fix your computer."

Weizhong Yang

http://zonble.twbbs.org/

zon...@gmail.com

[Weiyun Yu]

Good one! I think you'll have to talk to your parents about that one.
--

Weizhong Yang at zon...@gmail.com wrote on 5/4/07 05:59:

[Joe Wicentowski]

There's been some controversy surrounding Google Pinyin -- apparently
Google lifted the dictionary database from Sohu:

Google apologizes for using part of rival's software
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04/09/google/>

"Google on Monday issued a brief apology for using part of a software
application developed by rival Sohu.com in a recently released
Chinese software tool of its own."

...

[Kerim Friedman]

马玉玺 sent me a link to this thread where people are requesting a Mac
OS X version of the Google Pinyin input method.

kerim

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: 马玉玺
Date: 2009/5/20
Subject: Re: Google Pinyin
To: Kerim Friedman <oxu...@gmail.com>

Feature-request in official Chinese Google Groups here:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-pinyin/browse_thread/thread/afc4c43cbdced1ae

> http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/04/china-google-pinyin-type...
>
> kerim