A Brief History of sogou Development
August 3(rd), 2004
Sohu launched sogou, the world's first third-generation interactive Chinese search engine. The appearance of "sogou" marks the birth of the world's first third-generation interactive Chinese search engine, which is an important milestone in the development history of search technology.
April 2005
Sohu acquired Go2map, successfully introduced its rich map data and accumulated application experience into the search engine sogou, and took the lead in launching a brand-new search service function map search in China.
June 5(th), 2006
The first edition of sogou input method was born, which is the first input method developed by using advanced search engine technology in the industry, and is known as "Internet input method".
2006 10 month
Sogou launched "Sogou Lab" to provide relevant data free of charge for universities and individual researchers to use relevant raw data, so as to promote the common development of search engine technology.
65438+2007 10 month
Sogou Web Search launched version 3.0, becoming the first search engine in the world to include 654.38 billion Chinese pages.
20081October 2 1
At the 2008 China Search Festival, hosted by China Electronic Information Industry Development Research Institute and jointly hosted by CCID.com and CCID Consultants, sogou won three awards: the most concerned search engine in 2008, the best music search in 2008 and the best map search in 2008.
65438+February 22, 2008
Relying on the technical advantages of search engines, the first version of Sogou browser was born. With innovative functions such as "no card, no death", "whole network acceleration", "video extraction" and "intelligent dual-core", Sogou browser has quickly become a new force in the market, leading the browser market to change.
June 5(th), 2009
The third anniversary of the birth of sogou input method, the latest data of iResearch show that the user utilization rate of sogou input method is 79.7%, far ahead of other input methods.
August 3(rd), 2009
The fifth anniversary of sogou's birth.
2009 1 1.2
Sogou has introduced the concept product-sogou Cloud Input Method, which greatly improves the input accuracy by using the unlimited storage and computing power of the server.
2010 65438+1October 20th
Sogou released the first browser based on a true dual-core high-speed engine, which brought the browser into the high-speed era with its superior access speed and stability.
March 25, 1965 438+00
The official version of sogou Input Method 5.0 was released, and "cloud computing" technology was revolutionary applied to the input method client. The accuracy of long sentence input is improved from 6 1% to 84%, and the accuracy of short sentence input is improved from 9 1% to 94%.
April 8, 2065 438+00
The official version of sogou high-speed browser 2.0 was released.
August 3(rd), 2004
Sogou search engine is officially launched. It is the first third-generation interactive Chinese search engine in the world. But six years later, sogou is still in a weak position in the search engine market. According to the latest research data of iResearch, in April of 20 10, sogou's market share was 3.5%, ranking third. In addition, sogou's business has been at a loss.
August 9, 2065 438+00
Sohu strategically reorganized sogou and introduced Ali as a strategic investment.
August 9, 2065 438+00
Sohu and Alibaba Group announced cooperation. Sogou, its search business, will be split into an independent company, funded by Alibaba Group and strategic investors including Ma Yun.
July 2, 2065 438+02
Sohu announced that it had repurchased about 65,438+00% of sogou shares held by Alibaba. At this point, the two-year hand-in-hand relationship between sogou and Alibaba officially ended. According to the agreement, Sohu agreed to buy 24 million sogou preferred shares from Alibaba. The purchase price is $25.8 million. According to calculation, sogou's valuation is about $237 million. Because of the natural connection between search engines and e-commerce, massive goods on the Internet need search engines as a link to help them bring traffic and users. Therefore, Alibaba Group chooses to cooperate with a search engine that does not directly compete with it, which will effectively help it expand its business.
February 4, 2065 438+03
The total revenue of 20 12 in the fourth quarter reached a record, reaching USD 299 million, which was 22% higher than that of 20 1 1 and 5% higher than that of the previous quarter, which was USD 6 million higher than the expected limit of the group. The diluted GAAP net income per share is 60 cents; Non-GAAP diluted net income per share was 73 cents, which was 8 cents higher than the expected upper limit of the Group. In the whole year of 20 12, the total revenue reached a historical record, reaching106.7 billion US dollars, an increase of 25% compared with 20 1 1. The diluted GAAP net income per share is $2.03; Non-GAAP diluted net income per share is $2.54.
20 13 September
In the afternoon, Sohu and sogou announced a strategic cooperation with Tencent today. Tencent injected US$ 448 million into sogou and merged its Tencent Soso business and other related assets into sogou. After the transaction, Tencent immediately acquired 36.5% of the fully diluted shares of sogou, and its shareholding ratio will increase to about 40% in the near future.
2065438+May 8, 2004
Sogou search announced the launch of a brand-new LOGO today, which is the first time that sogou search has its own independent logo. The new logo will be applied to PC and mobile search. Sogou search also officially released the mobile search App today, and began to provide users with cross-terminal search services. trait
The world's first tens of billions of Chinese search engines included 654.38+000 billion web pages, creating a new high in the number of Chinese web pages in the world.
With 500 million pages updated every day, users can get the latest news information directly through web search instead of news search.
In the navigation and information query results, the accuracy rate is 94% and 67% respectively, leading the industry.
trait
Search function
Classification prompt, webpage grading, on-site query, webpage snapshot, related search, pinyin query, intelligent error correction, advanced search and document search.
Utility tool
Weather forecast, mobile phone number, word translation, fast recognition of new words, idiom query, calculator, IP address.
Right prompt
Search music, search map, stock query, postcode query, area code query, real estate query, game query, popular book recommendation, blog recommendation.
Sogou website navigation was officially launched in 2005, and has formed a navigation matrix of comprehensive resources such as movies, novels, games, shopping and group buying. Focusing on the user experience, sogou Website Navigation took the lead in launching personalized dynamic skins such as music and fortune telling, and at the same time launched personalized website services to provide users with quick access to websites, thus setting a new benchmark for personalized service products in the website navigation industry.
Sogou website navigation is the only website navigation that can realize web page and radio music. Users can easily enjoy all kinds of music by simply opening the sogou website and selecting the "Radio Music" skin in the top skin. You can also choose different music styles such as rock, jazz, folk songs and country according to your own preferences. Of course, if you don't like the music you are listening to, you can click the "Change a batch" function key to change a batch of music. Music search
Search for songs, lyrics, ringtones, original and pop music charts.
Picture search
Search the online world of flowers and flowers, but I can't see the pictures of beautiful and handsome guys.
News search
Collect nearly 2000 news source in real time and update it every minute.
Map search
Provide the best online map service in China, covering 20%.
advance
A platform for netizens to speak freely, where they can say whatever they want.
Blog search
Collect180,000 blog sites and update them daily.
video search
Collect a lot of wonderful videos to provide a perfect viewing experience!
Knowledge search
Using Search Technology to Extract Internet "Knowledge" sogou Toolbar
Make the search bar more convenient, listen to music and look at pictures, improve the download speed by 3-5 times, and continue the transmission at breakpoints.
Sogou Pinyin Input Method:
Sogou Pinyin Input Method (referred to as sogou Input Method and sogou Pinyin) is a Chinese Pinyin Input Method software launched by Sohu Company, and it is one of the mainstream Pinyin Input Methods in China.
Sogou five-stroke input method
Sogou Wu Bi input method is an input method product for Wu Bi users introduced by Sohu after Sogou Pinyin input method. On the basis of inheriting the advantages of traditional Wu Bi input method, sogou Wu Bi input method combines the advanced settings and easy-to-use design of Sogou Pinyin input method, and introduces functions such as network account and skin into Wu Bi input method, which makes sogou Wu Bi input method realize the perfect combination of input fluency and product appearance. Sogou input method for mobile phone
Sogou mobile phone input method adopts the mode of full spelling input, supports the adaptation of numeric keyboard and full keyboard mobile phone, and also provides the latest and most complete online thesaurus for downloading and updating, and is equipped with intelligent word frequency adjustment and other functions.
Sogou high speed browser
Sogou high-speed browser is the fastest and smoothest new browser on the Internet. Together with Pinyin input method, Wu Bi input method and other products, it has become an essential tool for you to surf the Internet at high speed. Sogou browser has the first "true dual-core" engine in China, and adopts multi-level acceleration mechanism, which can greatly improve the speed of surfing the Internet. Sogou Lab is the window for sogou search R&D core team to communicate with the outside world, including four columns: creative products, prototype demonstration, data download and academic papers. We expect to show the strong R&D and innovation ability of sogou R&D team through this platform; Promote interaction between academia and industry; Understand the user's demand for new products.
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