Netease Launches New Search Service

[bill]

Netease.com Launches New Search Service [chinatechnews.com]

Chinese Internet portal Netease.com (NTES) has launched the official upgraded beta of its self-developed search engine "You Dao".

The new beta search engine features an upgraded function of the webpage search, image search, blog search and desktop dictionary in the original beta, and it is expected to be one of the core businesses of Netease.com and provide better search experience for Chinese Internet users.

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Netease said they aimed to be the No. 1 Chinese search engine in 3 years! So the most exciting game has just began!

[bill]

When did they announce this? Recently?

It's a nice sentiment, but highly unlikely given the current market in China.

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It's what William Ding (CEO of Netease) said on Dec. 11 at the news press for the Youdao