Panguso information

Panguso (simplified Chinese: 盘古搜索; traditional Chinese: 盤古搜索; pinyin: Pángǔ sōusuǒ) is a Chinese company offering the search engine Panguso.com, which is used mostly in Chinese. Compared to its private competitors, the Chinese Baidu and the US-based Google, which are used more frequently in China, the two shareholders of this joint venture are the state-owned Chinese news agency Xinhua and the in 2011 worldwide largest mobile telecommunication provider China Mobile.^[1] On March 1, 2014, Panguso merged with Jike and became ChinaSo.^[2]^[3]

^ Golem Werner Pluta, 'Panguso - Official Chinese search engine started (Offizielle chinesische Suchmaschine startet)', in: Golem (2/23/2011)
^ "China has a new state-run search engine - but will anyone use it?". South China Morning Post. 2014-03-03. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
^ "China launches Chinaso, a new search engine". News18. 2014-03-22. Retrieved 2021-10-08.

[1] Golem Werner Pluta, 'Panguso - Official Chinese search engine started (Offizielle chinesische Suchmaschine startet)', in: Golem (2/23/2011)

[2] "China has a new state-run search engine - but will anyone use it?". South China Morning Post. 2014-03-03. Retrieved 2021-10-08.

[3] "China launches Chinaso, a new search engine". News18. 2014-03-22. Retrieved 2021-10-08.