Baidu frankly set aside consideration of the market involved in PC input terminal
Baidu client software division, said yesterday that the relevant person in charge, Baidu Baidu input method which can be self-developed products, is the point of hearing rather than a simple copy input method. At the same time, Baidu revealed that the current input method in the PC side regarding the launch of yet no definite ideas and plans.
Yesterday afternoon, Baidu, and Baidu Baidu formally launched handheld mobile phone input method two products, and this move was widely regarded as the layout of Baidu is accelerating mobile Internet market.
While Baidu has a low-key acquisition points after hearing input method, but Baidu client software business unit director Wang Xiao do not think that Baidu is the point of hearing cell phone input method input method. Wang Xiao said the input method is the core of the word thesaurus and electoral strategy, and Baidu is the core of mobile phone input method based on the accumulation of many years on Baidu.
Baidu input method for mobile phones, product manager for Chen Zhonghua also have added that, even though in the interactive operation and point Baidu mobile phone input method input method similar to hearing, but the core procedures such as Baidu have done a great upgrade, two new products in the input efficiency will certainly be very different.
“In this sense, a product of our own doing,” said Chen Zhonghua.
The Baidu input products are not the same as the peer-selection introduced first in the PC side to talk about the reason, said Xiao Wang, Baidu feels that mobile phone is the most commonly used communication platform, compared to mobile phones imported to meet a relatively large degree of room for improvement, we input method for mobile phones there is still further enhance the user experience requirements.
The employees also have a private right Baidu Sina science and technology, said the reason why the first step to avoid the PC end market, because input method development in this area is relatively mature, and competition more intense.
However, because of input method of input habits and thesaurus with relatively strong mobility of the platform, Baidu is widely speculated the next step will introduce PC side of the input method. For relevant speculation Wang Xiao responded, for Baidu will launch the PC-side input method product and has no fixed ideas and plans.
Prior to that, Tencent and Sohu, have been successively introduced PC-side and mobile side of the input method product. Input method in recent years also been caused by the outbreak of war of words between the Internet companies, and even in court.
Google China’s former chief strategy officer Guo analyzed to illness yesterday afternoon, all these years the reason for the input method and the crazy “because the user input into low cost, high viscosity, and easy as the promotion of other products or content of the media” . According to Guo recalled to the illness, Google in 2005 due to a lack of personnel, development of input methods have been missed opportunities.
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