Google Pinyin

{{As of|August 2012}}, Google Pinyin was available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 & Windows 10 version 1511 or below. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions were available.

Google released a Pinyin IME system for Android 1.5 or newer in March 2009.{{cite web|url=http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/inputmethods/PinyinIME.git |title=Android GIT repository, PinyinIME module |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911122358/http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform%2Fpackages%2Finputmethods%2FPinyinIME.git |archive-date=2009-09-11 }} The Android Pinyin IME supports user dictionary synchronization with the desktop version.

By the end of 2008, more than 20%{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} users of Google Pinyin wanted a Linux version of the input method, which was answered in the FAQ section with a general PR phrase "We always strive to provide a better user experience and we never stop our hard work to fulfill the customer needs".{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com/support/pinyin/bin/answer.py?hl=cn&answer=79336|title=常见问题：何时推出 Linux 或 Mac 版输入法？何时支持换肤功能？何时……？|language=zh}}

However, the Linux user community is porting the Android Google Pinyin IME to the non-Android Linux IME framework SCIM in the [https://code.google.com/p/scim-googlepinyin/ scim-googlepinyin module].

After Christmas 2009, the Google pinyin module for SCIM became also available for the Nokia Maemo 5 platform, which meant it could be downloaded to any Nokia N900 phone through the official application repositories.

A closed beta version of Google Pinyin for Mac OS X was leaked on September 14, 2010.[Google 输入法 for Mac 曝光 速度下载 http://marc.f2e.org/2010/09/14/google-ime-for-mac/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514172135/http://marc.f2e.org/2010/09/14/google-ime-for-mac/ |date=2011-05-14 }}] A public version was never made available.

After Google Pinyin was initially released in April 2007, it was soon discovered that Google Pinyin's dictionary database contained employee names of Sogou Pinyin, an indication that the dictionary was taken from Sogou, one of Google's competitors in the Chinese Internet market.{{cite web|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/130562/article.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011224928/http://www.pcworld.com/article/130562/article.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 11, 2012|title=Sohu Threatens to Sue Google|publisher=PC World|date=2007-04-10|access-date=2007-05-08|first=Sumner|last=Lemon}} On April 8, 2007, Google admitted that they used "non-Google database resources". Shortly thereafter, a new version of Google Pinyin was released which no longer appeared to be based on Sogou's database.{{cite web|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/130502/article.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115225043/http://www.pcworld.com/article/130502/article.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 15, 2013|title=Google Admits Using Outside Source for Chinese App|publisher=PC World|date=2007-04-09|access-date=2007-05-08|first=Sumner|last=Lemon}}

Google Pinyin for Windows has been failing to synchronize for years{{cite web|url=https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/SK-a9VLmCpI| title=Failed to lig-in Pinyin IME with my google account }} because of the deprecation of Google ClientLogin authentication. A client with an alternative authentication method has not been announced yet. Google Pinyin for Android can still synchronize (within this platform only).

• Pinyin input method
• Google IME
• Google Japanese Input
• Microsoft Pinyin IME
• Sogou Pinyin

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.google.com/ime/pinyin/ Google Pinyin Website]
• [https://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-pinyin Official Google Group] (Old)
• [http://www.google.com/ime/pinyin/version.html Version History]

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