Sogou Released Its Own Internet Browser

Written by Tangos on December 22, 2008
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Sogou, the search engine service under Sohu, today released a Internet browser, Sogou Browser. It is an IE kernel-based browser with some features to improve users experience.

Sogou Browser claims that it is using a multi-task asynchronous browsing technology which can make each tab browse the web independently. When a tab is crashed, other tabs will not be affected, which is similar to Google Chrome. To provide better online video-watching experience, Sogou Browser enable you to play only flash video on a web page in an independent windows, which can be put on top of all other windows and can be resize freely, then you can watch videos which you are browsing other tabs.

To address the Internet usage problem of China’s university students, Sogou Browser has an embedded proxy feature. In China, students in Universities are using CERNET (China Education and Research Network), which does not allow them to access overseas websites freely. Sogou Browser adds a proxy which enable users inside CERNET to access overseas websites.

Actually, Internet browser is an important software segment in China. There are several browsers in China which are using IE kernel, the most famous one is Maxthon which has been downloaded for over 177 million times, and on the list of top 10 international products of 2008 by ReadWriteWeb. Tencent also has its IE kernel browser called Tencent Traveler(TT). Another one is The World, Qihoo released a safe browser early this year based on The World and Qihoo 360safe security software. Even on mobile applications, there is a very popular Chinese mobile browser called UCWeb. Besides those local-made browser, both Firefox and Opera also want to take more shares in China market by offering special Chinese version. Last month, Firefox launched a Firefox China Version specially made for Chinese users. Opera released its China version just in last week.

4 Responses to “Sogou Released Its Own Internet Browser”

  1. Sogou Released Its Own Internet Browser : China Web2.0 Review : businessuu on December 23rd, 2008 12:15 am

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  2. China Journal : Best of the China Blogs: December 23 on December 23rd, 2008 1:29 pm

    [...] portal Sohu unveils a Web browser with Chinese characteristics.[China Web2.0 [...]

  3. China is that big and “special”…they need their own Internet Browsers « A Singapore Entrepreneur’s Insights… on December 28th, 2008 8:08 am

    [...] 28 12 2008 The below article is from one of the RSS feeds I read, the actual link is here. Point I wanted to make was we have IE, Firefox and Safari for the whole world but we need Sogou, [...]

  4. sanjeev on May 22nd, 2009 1:15 pm

    Why is it that Chinese users are so crazy about IE based browsers despite the poor standards ?

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