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.

Products

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.