Sogou
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Sogou is a Chinese search company co-founded by Chuan Wang after he graduated from the computer science department, per a 2025 profile by Soul Capital . Tencent invested in Sogou and later folded its own search business into it, as part of a broader 2011-2013 reorganization that also saw Tencent invest in Dianping and JD.com and merge its e-commerce operations into JD, according to a 2017 FreeS Fund piece by Zhidong Zhang . Zhang described this as Tencent's second major organizational transformation, driven by the shift to mobile — a move he said was necessary because "if you don't change, the world will change" .
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