Google Pinyin IME was an input method that allowed users on multiple operating systems to input characters from pinyin, the romanization of Standard Mandarin Chinese. Launched April 4, 2007; shut down November 30, 2018 — it lived 11 years. One of 15 Google products killed in 2018. Google Pinyin IME is a discontinued input method developed by Google China Labs. The tool was made publicly available on April 4, 2007. Aside from Pinyin input, it also includes stroke count method input. 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. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).