Sogou
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| Type | Public company, subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Founded | 9 August 2010 |
| Headquarters | Beijing, China |
| Industry | Internet |
| Website |
Sogou |
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.
The Sogou web spider does not respect the robots.txt internet standard, and is therefore banned from many web sites because of excessive crawling.[1]
Products
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Website screenshot | |
| Web address |
www |
|---|---|
| Commercial? | yes |
| Available in | Chinese |
| Users | 400 million |
| Owner | Sogou, Inc. (subsidiary of Sohu, Inc.) |
| Launched | 4 August 2004 |
Alexa rank |
 137 (April 2014)[2] |
| Current status | Active |
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 on-line 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$448 million.[3]
Blocking
To block Sogou on Apache HTTP Server (except for the robots.txt file), use:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Sogou web spider [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/robots\.txt$
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]
</IfModule>
To block Sogou on Nginx web server use:
if ($http_user_agent ~ "Sogou web spider") {
return 400;
}
References
- ↑ https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2067357/bye-bye-crawler-blocking-parasites
- ↑ "Sogou.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ↑ Aitken, Todd (17 September 2013). "Tencent invested $448 million in Chinese search engine Sogou". CEOWorld Magazine. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
External links
- Sogou – official site (in Chinese)