Sogou achieved solid results in Q2 2018 with revenue increasing 43% year-on-year to US$301.4 million and non-GAAP net income up by 58% to US$38.2 million, according to its financial results. That was greatly driven by the twin growth engines – search and mobile keyboard – and AI-focused strategy.
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Tencent quietly launched WeChat Boutique Stores
WeChat boutique stores don’t have a direct entry path from the main menu and are triggered to display after the brand terms are searched.
Mobile advertising market overview in China in H1 2017
Mobile advertising spends of internet services in China are the largest category in the first half of 2017, followed by Food & Beverage, IT products, and retail. P&G is the largest mobile advertiser with over 500 million yuan total spending, followed by Unilever and Shanghai General Motors (SGM). Mobile search (33%) is the top channel […]
China search engine Sogou revenues up 55% in Q3 2017
Sogou, one of the top Chinese search engines, revenues reached US$257 million in Q3 2017, up 55% year-over-year and 22% quarter-over-quarter.
WeChat enhanced in-app search results with mini-programs data
Tencent has enhanced WeChat search features this week and feed the search results with data from WeChat Mini-Programs.
WeChat just made mini-programs discoverable by keywords
WeChat team announced a new feature over the weekend that makes WeChat Mini-Program discoverable by keywords searching.
WeChat just launched Search and Top Stories
WeChat launched Search and Top Stories sections in the updated WeChat iOS 6.5.8. These two sections are not yet available for Android smartphone users.
China mobile search market overview for Q1 2017
Baidu has 78.2% share of China’s mobile search market by the total number of mobile search queries in the first quarter of 2017.
China search engine market share in Apr 2017
StatCounter data shows Baidu’s market share was 76.05% in China search engines market in April 2017, followed by Shenma (8.78%), 360 Search (7.87%), Sogou (3.31%), and Google (1.84%). Baidu is more dominant in China’s mobile search market with over 82% market share, followed by Shenma (13.79%) according to StatCounter. China search engine market overview Q1 2017 […]
WeChat becoming a threat to Baidu in mobile search?
WeChat has included external sources in in-app search results pages (SERP) while it previously only searches chats, WeChat Moments, and Official Accounts. Some users start to see a “news” section in the WeChat SERP which includes external news sources.
A Quick Guide for Baidu Mobile SEO
Mobile users are sometimes forced to initiate or download an app to continue viewing further content while visiting a web page via search engine, which can be quite annoying to users. Take one of the popular audio sharing platform Ximalaya as an example: When a user enters the website via mobile search, it interrupts the […]
China’s mobile search market overview Q3 2016
The number of mobile search users in China reached 628 million in Q3 2016, an increase of 1.29% QoQ according to iiMedia Research. Baidu still led mobile search market in China with 44.5% usage ratio, followed by Shenma (sm.cn; 20.8%), Sogou (16.2%), 360 (11.8%). Shenma search is a joint venture set up by Alibaba and UC […]