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Google Pinyin IME discontinued


taijidan

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Hi All, I just saw that Google pinyin input was discontinued back in march. 

 

This is from Wikipedia:

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Pinyin)

 

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 As of March 2019, Google Pinyin has been discontinued and the download page tools.google.com/pinyin/ has been deleted. However, Google Pinyin IME can still be obtained from https://dl.google.com/pinyin/v2/GooglePinyinInstaller.exe (as of September 29, 2019).

 

Really surprised as I thought it was very popular.

 

Any ideas on why it got discontinued? 

 

Any suggestions on the best alternatives?

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I use 搜狗 on my PC , I changed from Google pinyin years ago as it seemed better, however I can't remember the exact reasons why now .

 

6 hours ago, imron said:

It also has popup ads.  No thanks.

 

It's pretty minimal though, one a day or so. In the hundreds  of mouse clicks I do in a day, its a good trade off. 

 

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I am using 搜狗 in mac and don't get any ads at all, but I think it pop ups some advertising in Windows from time to time in a bearable extent. I ever tried Google's but 搜狗 feels more complete. I love the function which allows you to sort characters by their radical when too many homophones are listed, and I think I haven't seen that in any other IME.

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