Sogou and Microsoft's Bing Cooperate on English Language Search

On May 20, 2016, the state sponsored China Daily published an article entitled “ Sogou, Bing Unite for ‘Bigger World' Searches .” Some excerpts: Sogou Inc joined forces with a Western search engine giant in a new English-language search service, looking to take advantage of Baidu Inc's recent crisis to gain more market share. Sogou, which operates China's third-largest online search engine, said on Thursday that to satisfy Chinese curiosity for global information, it has teamed up with Microsoft's Bing to launch an English-language search engine. Wang Xiaochuan, CEO of Beijing-based Sogou, said the desire to closely link with the whole world prompted his company to launch the service. "We invite you, together with us, to embrace a bigger world.” All of the following screenshots were taken on May 20, 2016. Sogou’s English search engine found over 38,000 results for “Cai Yingwen,” but no results for “Xi Jinping.” Baidu was able to find results for "