I couldn’t help but notice the similarities between the two search engines. In fact, the colors are almost the same as well when you compare Sogou to Google. What initially sparked my interest with Sogou is how its caches this specific website. Unlike Google, MSN or Yahoo, there does not seem to be any type of attachment to RSS or Atom feeds. These pushes to read content are commissioned server side and not automatically initiated when an update is made to the site. I guess if you think about it, there probably is a concern by the Chinese government on how the data gets displayed by its users, so somebody probably manually validates each page on any new site update for any filtered words. If true, I could only imagine how slowly data would trickle through to the Chinese people – especially when it comes to breaking news.
I guess with above in mind there is no way Sogou will overtake the Google China presence, at least until they can refine their spiders ability to interpret language, and read RSS. Oh and have a person validate the data. LOL, kind of funny…
Take a look at the two images below, one image is of the Sogou search engine and one image is of the Google search Engine.
[Sogou (website homepage)]
[Google (website homepage)]
