If there is another search engine in China that can compete with Baidu and Google, then I think it has to be Tencent’s Soso. Although Tencent Sosou currently uses Google's technology and has not launched any large-scale promotion offensive, it has already achieved 3.5% of the search engine market share, second only to Baidu and Google. This may put Sogou to shame. This market share is still credible whether it is from the market research of iResearch and Analysys or the source of website search engine traffic.
I remember a friend who visited Google's China headquarters two months ago and talked about Sosou together. The friend said that they had detected that the traffic of Tencent Sosou was growing very rapidly, which could even be described as terrifying. A friend joked that Sosou is really lazy. After using Google technology for more than two years, he did not develop it himself. I think with Ma Huateng's character, it's not that Sosou doesn't develop, but that he has been working on it quietly but he doesn't dare to show it to others. Unless he can use his own technology, Soosou will not show off his sword easily. This is fundamentally different from the "must be hard" semi-finished product that Microsoft just presented to people. I have tried Bing. Microsoft's idea is good, but the technology is not on the same level as Google. Naturally, I will not use such a bad search engine.
At the end of last year, professional commentators in the Internet industry revealed that Sosou will soon launch a search engine with its own core technology. However, there has been no big movement so far. We only see that Tencent continues to recruit a large number of search engine engineers. . In fact, if you have a sharp eye, you can definitely find some clues about Sosou's true identity. If I guessed correctly, Sosou actually put this thing on a link on the homepage as early as last year, and that was his comprehensive search. A well-informed person published a piece of gossip in Dianshi in May. This information is believed to be true.
Take a look at some of Sosou’s unnoticed behavior since this year:
1. The name collection activity held by SouSou in January 2009 has ended. I don’t know what name SouSou plans to change it to.
2. If you often pay attention to apache or IIS logs, you can find that sosospider is extremely active and even more aggressive than baiduspider. This should be because soso is crawling a lot of web page data.
3. Sosou’s large-scale recruitment behavior and poached Xiao Jinheng, who is said to be very powerful, from Baidu. Of course, there are also the manual search editors who Ma Huateng announced last year to recruit two to three thousand people.
4. Sosou has quietly completed the development and official launch of picture, music, Souba, QQ, encyclopedia, news, video, blog search, as well as life search in cooperation with Aibang.
5. Alexa quietly climbed to 83rd place, ranking 11th among all Chinese websites.
No wonder there are so many rumors about Sosou about to officially use its own technology. It turns out that Sosou already seems confident. Applications such as pictures, music, and Souba do not have a lot of technical content and should not be worse than Baidu. However, the most important thing for a general search engine is web search technology. So Soosou's search technology is compared with Google and Baidu. How is it? You won’t know until you try it. You’ll be surprised if you try it. Let’s look at the comparison between the three (Soso technology assumes http://zh.soso.com).
1. Search for a popular keyword "mobile phone" and compare the results of three search engines:
Google's:
Baidu’s:
Sosou's:
Through the above results, we found that Sosou and Google have 5 identical results, Soso and Baidu also have 5 identical results, while Baidu and Google only have 2 identical results.
2. Search for a popular keyword "Jay Chou" and compare the results of three search engines:
Google's:
Baidu’s:
Sosou's:
Through the above results, we found that Sosou and Google have 5 identical results, Sosou and Baidu have 8 identical results, and Baidu and Google also have 6 identical results. . If we look at the results of Sosou, I believe everyone has begun to feel the chill, because we see that Sosou's personality seems to be the same as Baidu's, and they like to direct traffic to themselves.
3. For some other keywords, the results of Sosou are very similar to those of Baidu and Google. I admire this very much. It only took Sosou two years for its own technology to almost catch up. Google and Baidu.
I was originally looking forward to Sosou, who was still holding the pipa and half-hiding his face, but in the end, I couldn't look forward to it at all. Perhaps it is enough to have Baidu and Google in the Chinese search world.