SoGou - the new "Search Dog" in China

Sohu.com unveils a new Chinese search engine

[bill]

The well known directory portal SOHU has just unveiled a new search engine for the Chinese market: SoGou [sogou.com] which means "Search Dog" in Chinese.

article [story.news.yahoo.com]

I haven't figured out the SERPs yet. They seem different from the Baidu, Google and Yahoo variants in China. The minimalist design is nice and seems to be a real trend among Chinese SEs lately.

[kent]

it looks like sogou.com gives much more priority to chinese language websites over english ones. i found my company's chinese website ranks so well there but the english version website has not even been indexed!

if you search in enlish on sogou.com, you will see that lots of chinese pages come up on the top.

it doesnt search pictures though, not even navigation bars and menus, only text contents.

google, baidu, 3721, zhongsou, yisou, sogou... what you think is the next?

[bill]

If anybody is interested the SoGou robot/crawler identifies itself as: sohu-search

[uncle_bob]

sohu-search bot visits most days, but has NEVER asked for robots.txt Bad Spider. I'm in two minds whether to ban it for bad-behaviour.

[bnhall]

Uh - GUI-wise this thing is a lawsuit from Google waiting to happen. What's the chinese say? I'm feeling lucky?