Google, aiming at expanding its existence in China, recently made an apology to Internet users and Sohu.com, one of the major Web portals of China for making use of third-party technology in its latest product rollout. Sohu.com complained recently that Google’s tool for inputting Chinese characters seemed to be copying material from Sohu’s Sogou search engine. Chinese Web surfers indicated resemblance soon after the launch of the Google tool.
Responding to the complaint, Google was reported as saying that the product had in its preliminary R&D stage been brought about to leverage a few non-Google database resources however it had since upgraded the system. Google maintained further that they are ready to face this problem of theirs. Whilst they say sorry for the hassle caused by this to users and Sohu, besides they have also stumbled upon to prompt actions. China is the second-largest Internet users of the world after the US, with almost 137 million Web users.
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The Chinese are too clever ! they have forced a giant like Google make an apology.
If Google had done such a mess with the language of India (Hindi) or Middle East(Arabic) it would not have landed in this much trouble .