Beijing Sogou Information Service Co., Ltd., a well-known website in China, a search engine under Sohu, a well-known search, input method, browser and other Internet products and service providers in China
Sogou is a leading provider of search, input methods, browsers and other Internet products and services in China. Since Sohu launched the world's first third-generation interactive Chinese search engine in August 2004, Sogou Search has developed into one of the top three PC searches, and mobile search ranks second. According to iResearch's data in December 2014, Sogou has 507 million PC users, second only to Tencent and Qihoo, becoming the third largest Internet company in China. Mobile users are second only to Tencent, ranking second with 210 million monthly active users, making it a benchmark enterprise for the rapid development of the Internet in China.
Sogou pursues technological innovation in products, keeps up with the pace of the times, and emphasizes strategic layout. After long-term exploration and repeated attempts, it has formed a product layout based on search engines, input methods and browsers, supplemented by call management, maps, intelligent hardware and other products.
In June 2006, Sogou launched the Sogou input method that redefined Chinese input and quickly occupied the market. Today, Sogou input method has covered 480 million users, with a market share of 91%, leading the Chinese input method software market. Sogou input method has always been to improve the user input experience as the goal, through the network hot words, intelligent error correction, cloud input, heart and other innovative product functions to create a user input service platform, greatly improving the speed and accuracy of input. After Sogou mobile phone input method dominated the Android system, it was the first to land on the Apple APP Store in September 2014, and topped the free list within 7 hours of being launched, and firmly occupied this position for two weeks. Sogou input method has won a comprehensive victory from the PC to the mobile phone, and has become a veritable "national input method".
Sogou search was launched in 2004, ten years of insistence on innovation, continuous breakthroughs, with the merger of Tencent SOSO in 2013, Sogou search reset the industry pattern, PC search three points of the world; At the same time, Sogou mobile search is in second place after Baidu. In addition, Sogou Search combined with Tencent's exclusive resources to create WeChat search, online local life, scan code price comparison, WeChat headlines and other unique services, for the first time to achieve real differentiated competition, on the one hand, continue to widen the distance with followers, on the other hand, continue to hit the top position.
In December 2014, Sogou completed the first crossover of products and launched Sogou children's intercom positioning watch - Sugar Cat, officially sounding the clarion call to enter intelligent hardware. Compared with similar products, Sugar Cat has many advantages: voice intercom, precise positioning, somatosensory games, voice time signal, etc., and it ranked first in the sales of Jingdong smart watches in the first month of listing. Become the most popular parent-child companion artifact. As a result, Sogou's business strategy has been upgraded.
Behind the brilliant achievements is Sogou's persistence, innovation and breakthrough. Since 2003, Sogou has successively launched strategic products such as Sogou search, Sogou input method and Sogou browser, and created a three-level rocket mode of "input method-browser-search", which has become the only successful mode of industry catch-up search; In 2010, Sogou was spun off from Sohu and grew from a department to a company; In 2013, Sogou introduced Tencent's strategic investment, merged Tencent's search and other businesses, and became the only catch-up and subversive in the field of mobile search.
Data shows that since the spin-off, Sogou's revenue has continued to grow, with an increase of 50% for 16 consecutive quarters. With the deepening of the cooperation with Tencent, the revenue in the fourth quarter of 2014 reached US$119 million, and the annual revenue exceeded US$386 million, an increase of 79% over 2013, achieving sustained profitability for the whole year, and Sogou became one of the fastest-growing Internet companies in China.
In 2015, under the guidance of the "smart" strategy, Sogou will realize the transformation from tools to smart services with the mission of "helping everyone quickly and accurately obtain valuable personalized information and services through smart computing". And adhering to the "scientific spirit, the pursuit of product excellence; Believe in civilization and adhere to the spirit of honest management", continuously create value for users with innovative technology-based products, and bring efficient returns to partners and investors.
