Sogou Pinyin

Sogou Pinyin Method (Chinese: 搜狗拼音输入法; pinyin: Sōugǒu Pīnyīn Shūrùfǎ) is a popular Chinese Pinyin input method editor developed by Sohu.com, Inc. under its search engine brand name, Sogou.

Sogou Pinyin
Screenshot of Sogou Pinyin
Developer(s)Sohu
Initial release2006
Stable release
8.5 / 5 July 2017 (2017-07-05)
Operating systemWindows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Ubuntu, Mac OS X, Symbian S60, Windows Mobile, Android, iOS
Available inSimplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
TypeInput method
Websitepinyin.sogou.com

Sogou Pinyin is a dominant input software in China. By July 2011, Sogou Pinyin had an 83.6% penetration rate with more than 300 million users.[1]

Features

Sogou Pinyin provides features for customizing its dictionary, appearance and function. The dictionary of Sogou Pinyin can be enriched by adding so-called cell dictionaries, which contain words in special fields.[2] The appearance of Sogou Pinyin can be changed using skins and animation.[3] The function of Sogou Pinyin can be extended using extensions such as mouse-writing.[4] Beside Pinyin input, it also includes stroke count method input.

In April 2007, Sohu threatened to sue Google because after Google Pinyin's initial release, it was soon discovered that Google Pinyin's dictionary database contained employee names of Sogou Pinyin.[5] 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.[6]

Sogou Cloud Pinyin

In 2009, Sogou launched a Bookmarklet named Sogou Cloud Pinyin (搜狗云输入法) that can allow any major browser to input Chinese characters on a webpage without installing any new software or plugins. It uses JavaScript and Ajax on the browser and apparently cloud computing technology on the servers.

See also

References
  1. "Sogou Sets Sights on Google China".
  2. "Sogou Pinyin Cell Dictionaries".
  3. "Sogou Pinyin Skins".
  4. "Sogou Pinyin Extensions".
  5. Lemon, Sumner (2007-04-10). "Sohu Threatens to Sue Google". PC World. Retrieved 2007-05-08.
  6. Lemon, Sumner (2007-04-09). "Google Admits Using Outside Source for Chinese App". PC World. Retrieved 2007-05-08.
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