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Steven Millward · · 2 min read

Qihoo’s New Search Engine Surges to 10% Share in China, Google Drops to 4th Place

Chinese traffic stats company CNZZ has calculated the impact of Qihoo’s (NYSE:QIHU) controversial new search engine in the China market, and reckons that it has grabbed the second spot with nearly 10 percent market share. This puts Qihoo’s So.com search engine way behind market leader Baidu, but ahead of Sogou (7.83 percent), and fourth-placed Google (4.72 percent).

Here are the new CNZZ stats in full:

China’s Search Engine Traffic Market Share (using CNZZ data for pageviews), Oct 2012:
Search engine Market Share (PVs)
Baidu 72.97%
Qihoo’s So.com 9.64%
Sogou 7.83%
Google 4.72%
Tencent’s Soso.com 3.68%
Bing 0.52%
Netease’s Youdao.com 0.31%
Yahoo 0.25%
Zhongsou 0.03%
Qihoo.com 0.01%

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