DWGoogle, the Chinese Google news blog reports that Google is about to release a dictionary tool in China. This tool is an adaption of Kingsoft’s existing popular tool PowerWord, and it allows the look-up of words as before but also brings new features added by Google.

“PowerWord (in Chinese, 金山詞霸 JÄ«n shÄ?n cí bà and hence sometimes labelled "CIBA") is a collection of Chinese, English and bilingual dictionaries and supporting proprietary software, published on CD-ROM in China by Kingsoft, which claims to have 20 million users including 50,000 organisations. It runs only on the Microsoft Windows platform. [Wikipedia]”

Source:→ Google Blogoscoped

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