16 Facts About Sogou

Sogou has offices in Chengdu co-located with Tencent's office building.

Sogou continued to lead a small team of students from nearby Tsinghua University to develop the new search engine.

In 2006, Sogou invented Sogou Pinyin, the eventual dominant input platform used in China for both desktop PC and mobile.

In 2007, Sogou established a search curriculum with Tsinghua University to recruit future engineers and stimulate development.

Also in 2014, Sogou became the only search engine to be able to search WeChat public accounts.

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Sogou debuted on New York Stock Exchange on 9 November 2017, under the ticker "SOGO".

In contrast with 2010, when Sogou was spun off into an independent company, sales have grown from 18.

In October 2017, Sogou began testing a general search engine within WeChat, which would allow all 902 million daily active users to access the internet within the app.

Since 2013, Sogou has only been able to search and index the contents of WeChat official accounts.

In September 2018, Sogou disclosed an annual agreement with Tencent to continue the search integration experiment until 2023, with annual renewals.

In 2007, Sogou won a patent infringement case against Google for copying their IME.

Sogou is currently China's largest search engine by voice, as the country moves from desktop to mobile search.

On 22 March 2018, Sogou launched the Travel Translator and Travel Pen, which sold out on the first day.

In May 2016, Sogou partnered with Microsoft to use Bing to search for English results, and then get the result translated back into Chinese.

In 2016, Sogou donated $30 million to Tsinghua University in a joint partnership to build an Artificial Intelligence Institute.

In 2014, Sogou launched Zhihu search and is the default search engine on Zhihu.