SubscribeRSS Reader Gougou Turns Into Xunlei Download Search Engine
Gougou, a formerly leading RSS reader has quietly entered dead pool. The domain name was sold to Xunlei. Now it’s branded as a download resource search engine of Xunlei. Techweb is reporting.
Gougou was founded by Li Xueling, former employee of Netease and Sohu.
Our former coverage of Gougou is here. Since the rising of Zhuaxia, Gougou has already lost its leading place. The founder also publicly transferred interest into Duowan, a game news portal and community.
According to Techweb, Gougou didn’t treat its RSS reader users well in this sudden transform. They didn’t have the chance to backup their reading list. (UPDATE: Gougou RSS reader is still accessible in this link, although we are not sure if user data is still available.)
Xunlei has received investment from Google China early this year. In the search result of Gougou, there’re links to Google search in the right sidebar and footbar. Also there’s Google suggest like feature in the search bar. These suggest that Google may have participated in the development of the search engine.
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