Souyo: A New Chinese Blog Search Engine

Written by Tangos on April 6, 2006
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SouyoSouyo is the latest Chinese blog search engine, which launched two week ago.

As it said in its homepage, Souyo now indexed over ten million blog posts from about 500 thousand blogs, that is average 20 posts from each blog.

Being a blog search engine, Souyo has most of the necessary functions, i.e. keyword search, tag search, link search and blog rank. In addition, Souyo has some interesting features, such as:

1. Quotation from blogs in their homepage: Souyo extracts random quotation from blogs to show in their homepage automatically.

2. Mini reader: In search result page, you can use its mini reader function under each result to read the post immediately, useful feature, I like it.

Souyo plans to launch a product review search function, but it is still under development and unavailable for test.

Souyo has decent design and well-applied ajax technology. However, for basic search capability, Souyo still has to improve much for it to be useful for users. For example, there are many miscoded Chinese characters you can find in the search result, and it seems Souyo has not fully indexed links of the post, that also makes its blog rank useless. I would suggest they release any new feature until it is really usable.

Anyway, I’m glad to see more blog search engine appear in China, it may press those experienced search engines, as Baidu, to pay more attention on this market.

6 Responses to “Souyo: A New Chinese Blog Search Engine”

  1. panasianbiz on April 7th, 2006 5:15 am

    When you say this is a Chinese blog search engine, will it be able to search in Chinese and English? How about Japanese or other languages?

    Sounds like a great tool.

    Will it help me find Chinese blogs in English?

  2. Tangos on April 7th, 2006 11:51 am

    When I say Chinese blog search, I mean search in Chinese, not blog written by Chinese people, so I don’t think it can search Japanese or English, thought there are a little blogs in English.

    if you want to find Chinese blogs in English, maybe http://www.chinabloglist.org/ will help you.

  3. DNA'sview on April 7th, 2006 4:57 pm

    1st I wanna say , I have used it. but there r so many bugs, and the other thing I dont like is the engine who made it let me feel he need money in a hurry. he add too many ad in it.

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  5. oneandhalf on June 4th, 2006 10:15 pm

    DNA’sview, your point is absolutely right!
    Another point is that, as a professional search engine, they should make the website entrance simple and ease of use.
    you see how simple the google homepage is!

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