3 Search Engines are taking 3 days off!
June 20th, 2006Today, I did a routine check at all the chinese search engines. 3 of them posted a notice at their homepage, and saying that there are upgrading.
Sina’s Iask, Sohu’s Sogou, and China.com’s search.
Iask notice:
Sogou notice:
China.com notice:
Its easy to explain the upgrading notice of China.com, because their search is powered by Sogou.
What happened to Iask and Sogou, or What happened to Sina and Sohu. They must be experiencing something.
A little bird told me that this “upgrading” would last for 3 days, from 19th to 21th. And the related resellers all got sorry letters before that from search engines. The letter said that due to some unexpected issue, they would stop the search for 3 days and would provide extra one week service as compensation.
Some rumor said that they might merge each other. I dont believed that. A very reliable little bird told me that, someone will be the Timev Second, and become the exclusive dealer for sou.china.com’s pay search. They had the contract in the hand.
So, the situation is that 3 chinese search engines will take 3 days off each, maybe from 19th to 21th, maybe longer.
Anyway, we still have google, baidu, yahoo, zhongsou and all the chinese search they power.
It’s enough!
