Googlified

Google Labs China today releases the first version of the Google Pinyin IME (though it is already in version 1.0.15.0).

“The intelligent Google Pinyin IME has five major features”, as listed on its home page:

• Auto sentence creation
• Popular vocabularies
• Synchronize with Google account
• One click search
• English hint (when type in the first characters of a word and it will show a list of words)

Some other features are auto correction, refined vocabulary, traditional Chinese input and GBK support, custom phrases, and you can import/export dictionaries.

Google has been developing this tool since (at least) last year, and has been testing internally since.

[via Google Blogoscoped]