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Industry
  
Internet

CEO
  
Xiaochuan Wang (2010–)

Founded
  
3 August 2004

Website
  
Sogou.com

Headquarters
  
Beijing

Parent organization
  
Sohu

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Type of site
  
Public company, subsidiary

Sogou, Inc. is a subsidiary of Sohu, Inc. founded on 9 August 2010. It is the owner and developer of Sogou (Chinese: 搜狗; pinyin: Sōugǒu; literally: "Search-dog") search engine, Sogou Input and Sogou browser.

Contents

Sogou unveils groundbreaking translation search engine


Search engine and web applications

Sogou search engine (Sogou.com) was launched on 3 August 2004.

Sogou's web application products are designed to classify online information, such as music, picture, video clip, news, map and vertical information.

Sogou Input

Initially released in 2006, Sogou Pinyin is the most popular Chinese input software in China. It makes use of its search engine techniques which are the analysis and categorization of the most popular words or phrases on the Internet.

Sogou browser

Started in December 2008, Sogou browser adopts a "dual-core" (Google Chrome's WebKit and Internet Explorer's Trident layout engines) techniques and it connects to the cloud to recognize malicious websites and software.

Investment

On 17 September 2013, it was announced that Tencent has acquired a 36.5% stake in Sogou.com for US$448 million.

References

Sogou Wikipedia