Hooke - The Quiet Battle of Tencent vs. Baidu - Tianxia Search

by hookle on 2007-05-16 17:46:31

On May 16, Google officially announced its cooperation with Tencent to provide technical support for Tencent's search engine, Soso. It is no longer a secret within the industry that Soso uses Google's technology, and the two parties have been collaborating "secretly" for nearly a year. In response, Google stated that the reason for announcing the cooperation after almost a year was due to the immaturity of both the product and the timing. According to Google, all search services of Soso, including web pages, music, forums, and images, are powered by Google technology. After the announcement of the collaboration, Google's logo has already appeared on the results page of Soso searches. Tencent's Soso has always occupied a small share of China's search engine market, but recently Tencent acquired Wenwen.com, which seems to indicate...