Panguso
| Panguso 盘古 搜索 | |
|---|---|
| legal form | 有限公司 ( GmbH ) |
| founding | 2011 |
| Seat | Beijing , China |
| Branch | Internet |
| Website | panguso.com |
Panguso ( Chinese 盤古 搜索 , Pinyin Pángǔ sōusuǒ ) is a Chinese company that operates the mainly Chinese-language search engine panguso.com. Compared to the private-sector search engines used more frequently in China, the Sino-American Baidu and the American Google , the two shareholders of this joint venture are the state-owned Chinese news agency Xinhua and the world's largest mobile operator China Mobile in 2011 .
founding
The founding of the search engine was announced in August 2010, a beta version ran in December 2010 and the official start was at the end of February 2011. The front page redirects to the “News” category, where the first headlines can already be seen in addition to the search window. News is also the focus of the search engine. The state-monopoly Chinese content provider Xinhua and the largest Chinese mobile operator (2010: 550 million users) have joined forces with the two partners . The search engine is to be preset on the mobile phones and is therefore also an answer to Google, which brought its Google phone to the market.
Chances of success
The main competitive disadvantage of the search engine is its official character, since, according to the Internet study by the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences, Chinese Internet users are particularly interested in diverse, high-potential information outside of the state information channel. According to Qian Xiaoqian, representative of the Chinese State Council, the search engine should "offer useful and healthy products and work to limit the distribution of illegal content such as pornography and the glorification of violence". The results displayed on Panguso are more limited than on Google and even more limited than on baidu .
Web links
- Panguso website at panguso.com
- State starts its own internet search engine . In: RP Online (March 1, 2011)
- Christoph Ricking: Panguso, interview with Martin Woesler . ( Radio report (MP3; Chinese; 1.6 MB), dw-world.de in Chinese) In: Deutsche Welle . Chinese program, March 1, 2011.
- Christoph Ricking: Baidu Beat, interview with Martin Woesler . ( Radio report (MP3; Chinese; 1.6 MB), dw-world.de in Chinese) In: Deutsche Welle , Chinese program, January 12, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Werner Pluta: Panguso - Official Chinese search engine starts. In: Golem . February 23, 2011.
- ↑ About us . ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. panguso.com, accessed March 1, 2011.
- ↑ Christoph Ricking: Panguso, interview with Martin Woesler. ( Radio report ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. (MP3; Chinese; 1, 6 MB), dw-world.de chinese) In: Deutsche Welle. Chinese program, March 1, 2011.
