1. Baidu
Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), the world's largest Chinese search engine and largest Chinese website. At the end of 1999, Robin Li, who was in Silicon Valley in the United States, saw the huge development potential of China's Internet and Chinese search engine services. With the dream of changing the world with technology, he resolutely quit his high-paying job in Silicon Valley and took the patented search engine technology to launch the company in January 2000. Baidu was founded in Zhongguancun on March 1st.
The word "Baidu" comes from a line written by Xin Qiji, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty 800 years ago: There are thousands of Baidu to search for him. This sentence describes the poet's persistent pursuit of ideals.
Baidu has tens of thousands of R&D engineers, which is the best technical team in China and even the world. This team masters the most advanced search engine technology in the world, making Baidu a Chinese high-tech enterprise that masters the world's cutting-edge scientific core technologies. It also makes China one of the only four countries in the world besides the United States, Russia, and South Korea that has One of the countries with core search engine technology.
2. Yahoo
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is a famous Internet portal in the United States and one of the creators of the Internet miracle at the end of the 20th century. Its services include search engines, emails, news, etc., with operations in 24 countries and regions, providing diversified network services to more than 500 million independent users around the world.
It is also a global Internet communications, commerce and media company. Yahoo is the world's first website to provide Internet navigation services. It is headquartered in St. Clark, California, and has offices in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Canada and the United States.
Yahoo is the oldest "category" search database and one of the most important search service websites, accounting for about 36% of all Internet search applications. All included websites are manually edited and classified according to categories. The registered websites in its database are of very high quality both in form and content. In March 2003, Yahoo completed its acquisition of Inktomi and became one of Google's main competitors.
Yahoo has 12 language versions including English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Danish, and the content of each version is different from each other. Provides directory, website and full-text search functions. The catalog classification is reasonable and deep, the categories are well set, the website synopsis is strict and clear, the website contains rich content, and the search results are highly accurate.
3. Sogou
Sogou is a subsidiary of Sohu. It was launched on August 3, 2004. The purpose is to enhance the search skills of Sohu.com and mainly operates Sohu’s search. business. Along with the search business, Sogou input method and Sogou high-speed browser were also launched.
On August 9, 2010, Sohu and Alibaba announced that they would spin off Sogou to form an independent company and introduce strategic investment. After the capital injection, Sogou is expected to become a Chinese search tool second only to Baidu.
On September 16, 2013, Tencent injected US$448 million into Sogou and merged its Tencent Soso business and other related assets into Sogou. After the transaction was completed, Tencent immediately obtained 36.5% of Sogou's fully diluted share. shares, and Tencent’s shareholding ratio will increase to about 40% in the near future.
Sogou’s operating income in the fourth quarter of 2014 was US$119 million, a year-on-year increase of 70%, and net profit was US$18 million. For the full year of 2014, Sogou's operating revenue reached US$386 million, a year-on-year increase of 79%, and its net profit reached US$33 million.
On November 8, 2015, the in-depth cooperation between Sogou and Zhihu was officially announced, in which Sogou has full access to Zhihu content data, and at the same time, the Sogou Zhihu search vertical channel is launched to aggregate high-quality Zhihu content; Zhihu uses Sogou’s customized search technology solution to completely upgrade the underlying engine of Zhihu search.
4. iAsk
"iAsk" is a search product completely independently developed by Sina, which fully embodies the product concept of humanized application and provides new search services for the majority of netizens.
5. Soso
Soso is a search website owned by Tencent and one of Tencent’s main business units. The website was officially launched and started operation in March 2006.
Soso has become one of the top three search engines preferred by Chinese netizens. It mainly provides netizens with practical and convenient search services and is responsible for all of Tencent's search business. It is one of the important components of Tencent's overall online life strategy.
6. Youdao
Youdao is a subsidiary of NetEase that uses big data technology to provide mobile Internet applications. NetEase Youdao has launched a series of products such as Youdao Dictionary, Youdao Cloud Notes, Huihui.com, and Youdao Promotion. [1]
NetEase Youdao starts with search products and technologies and has profound technical accumulation in fields such as large-scale data storage and computing. On this basis, it has derived language translation applications and services, personal cloud There are three core business directions: applications and e-commerce shopping guide services.
7. 360 Search
360 comprehensive search is a meta-search engine and a type of search engine. It helps users choose among multiple search engines through a unified user interface. And using appropriate (or even using several at the same time) search engines to implement retrieval operations is a global control mechanism for multiple retrieval tools distributed on the network. 360 Search+ is a full-text search engine. It is a third-generation search engine based on machine learning technology developed by Qihoo 360. It has the ability of "self-learning and self-evolution" and can discover the search results that users need most.
On January 6, 2015, 360 President Qi Xiangdong sent an email to all employees, announcing that 360 Search would officially launch an independent brand "Haosou", and the original domain name could be directly redirected to the new domain name.
In February 2016, 360 announced again that it would rename "Haosou Search" to "360 Search", and the domain name was also switched from "haosou.com" to "so.com", which is easier to input, returning. The 360 ??parent brand means that 360 Search will continue to rely on the foundation of the 360 ??parent brand and continue to form differentiated advantages in terms of security and trustworthiness.