|
Alibaba, which coveted the search market, was obviously not satisfied with this. Three years later, it launched a professional video vertical aggregation search service product "Yisou", but the product did not create much waves. Alibaba’s second truly independent attempt in the search field was after acquiring UC in After integrating "Yisou", the two parties launched Shenma, a mobile search engine.
According to statcounter, as of the end of , Shenma occupied of China’s search engine FR Numbers market, ranking third. Search Melee : Veterans vs. Upstarts Attack and Defense cture: Data comes from Statcounter In , Alibaba made a new attempt in the search field: launching "Quark Search". It is characterized by lightness as its core, simple design style and only one search box. Unlike other search engines that focus on information aggregation functions.
Quark mainly focuses on intelligent information services. In the words of Quark Product Director Zheng Sishou, Quark has not positioned itself to challenge the search giants, but is targeting the industry’s “next-generation” opportunities. “For example, the proportion of deep learning, human-computer interaction, and voice interaction are increasing in search significantly improved." But this does not prevent Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu from becoming the most competitive presence in the Chinese search market in the past two decades.
|
|