SEARCH ENGINE · OWN INDEX · CHINA

What is Sogou?

Sogou is a search engine run by 搜狗公司 (Sogou). It runs its own index. The research records one rich result type for it, not marked active. The research records China as its main market. The research lists three crawler tokens for it: Sogou web spider, Sogou inst spider and sogou spider.

Last checked November 10, 2026 · 17 sources

Type
Search engine
Run by
搜狗公司 (Sogou)
Results come from
Its own index
Recorded markets
China
Where its share is highest
China, 1.71% StatCounter Global StatsAmong ranked places: 1 million people or more, at least three entries listed
Share, worldwide
0.01% StatCounter Global Stats
Structured data formats
None documented
Rich result types
0 active of 1 on record

Who runs it

Run by 搜狗公司 (Sogou). The research records the operator as: 搜狗公司 (Sogou; name as given on its own disclaimer page)

www.sogou.com

Where does Sogou get its results?

Sogou's help pages describe its own spider fetching pages, storing them and following links[3], and an index built from those snapshots (source 12, a generic explainer). No syndication from another engine is documented. Sitemap submission is restricted: the platform says "目前Sitemap采用邀请制"[9].

Engines that use results from Sogou

The research records no engine that takes its general results from Sogou or is built on it by the same company.

Which countries use Sogou?

Share, worldwide

0.01%

#14 worldwide, October 2026 · StatCounter Global Stats

#1 by share in

None

of the 4 places ranked here (1 million people or more, at least three entries listed) · StatCounter Global Stats

What the figures measure: share of search engine referrals: visits that sites running StatCounter's code receive from a search results page (it does not count searches), all platforms, October 2026. Source: StatCounter Global Stats, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.

Every ranked place where StatCounter lists SogouShare in each, October 2026, with its rank there. Bars run from 0 to 2%. StatCounter Global StatsRanked: places of 1 million people or more where StatCounter lists at least three entries. In smaller places, or where it lists only one or two, a single figure can swing widely (a lone entry shows as 100%). Population: World Bank; Taiwan, which the World Bank does not list, from Wikidata, citing its household registration office. Smaller places stay on the map and in the full list.
  1. China1.71% #6
  2. Cambodia0.02% #11
  3. China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region0.02% #10
  4. Mongolia0.02% #10

Share for Sogou by country, October 2026A world map shaded by share in five bands. 6 countries and territories have a figure; each country opens its figures on a click, and the full list is below the map.Cambodia: 0.02%Mongolia: 0.02%China: 1.71%United Arab Emirates: not listedAfghanistan: not listedAlbania: not listedArmenia: not listedAngola: not listedArgentina: not listedAustria: not listedAustralia: not listedAzerbaijan: not listedBosnia and Herzegovina: not listedBangladesh: not listedBelgium: not listedBurkina Faso: not listedBulgaria: not listedBurundi: not listedBenin: not listedBrunei Darussalam: not listedBolivia (Plurinational State of): not listedBrazil: not listedBahamas: not listedBhutan: not listedBotswana: not listedBelarus: not listedBelize: not listedCanada: not listedDemocratic Republic of the Congo: not listedCentral African Republic: not listedCongo: not listedSwitzerland: not listedCôte d’Ivoire: not listedChile: not listedCameroon: not listedColombia: not listedCosta Rica: not listedCuba: not listedCyprus: not listedCzechia: not listedGermany: not listedDjibouti: not listedDenmark: not listedDominican Republic: not listedAlgeria: not listedEcuador: not listedEstonia: not listedEgypt: not listedEritrea: not listedSpain: not listedEthiopia: not listedFinland: not listedFiji: not listedFalkland Islands (Malvinas): not listedFrance: not listedGabon: not listedUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: not listedGeorgia: not listedGhana: not listedGreenland: not listedGambia: not listedGuinea: not listedEquatorial Guinea: not listedGreece: not listedGuatemala: not listedGuinea-Bissau: not listedGuyana: not listedHonduras: not listedCroatia: not listedHaiti: not listedHungary: not listedIndonesia: not listedIreland: not listedIsrael: not listedIndia: not listedIraq: not listedIran (Islamic Republic of): not listedIceland: not listedItaly: not listedJamaica: not listedJordan: not listedJapan: not listedKenya: not listedKyrgyzstan: not listedDemocratic People's Republic of Korea: not listedRepublic of Korea: not listedKuwait: not listedKazakhstan: not listedLao People's Democratic Republic: not listedLebanon: not listedSri Lanka: not listedLiberia: not listedLesotho: not listedLithuania: not listedLuxembourg: not listedLatvia: not listedLibya: not listedMorocco: not listedRepublic of Moldova: not listedMontenegro: not listedMadagascar: not listedNorth Macedonia: not listedMali: not listedMyanmar: not listedMauritania: not listedMalawi: not listedMexico: not listedMalaysia: not listedMozambique: not listedNamibia: not listedNew Caledonia: not listedNiger: not listedNigeria: not listedNicaragua: not listedNetherlands (Kingdom of the): not listedNorway: not listedNepal: not listedNew Zealand: not listedOman: not listedPanama: not listedPeru: not listedPapua New Guinea: not listedPhilippines: not listedPakistan: not listedPoland: not listedPuerto Rico: not listedState of Palestine: not listedPortugal: not listedParaguay: not listedQatar: not listedRomania: not listedSerbia: not listedRussian Federation: not listedRwanda: not listedSaudi Arabia: not listedSolomon Islands: not listedSudan: not listedSweden: not listedSlovenia: not listedSlovakia: not listedSierra Leone: not listedSenegal: not listedSomalia: not listedSuriname: not listedSouth Sudan: not listedEl Salvador: not listedSyrian Arab Republic: not listedEswatini: not listedChad: not listedTogo: not listedThailand: not listedTajikistan: not listedTimor-Leste: not listedTurkmenistan: not listedTunisia: not listedTürkiye: not listedTrinidad and Tobago: not listedTaiwan: not listedUnited Republic of Tanzania: not listedUkraine: not listedUganda: not listedUnited States of America: not listedUruguay: not listedUzbekistan: not listedVenezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): not listedViet Nam: not listedVanuatu: not listedYemen: not listedSouth Africa: not listedZambia: not listedZimbabwe: not listedWestern Sahara: no dataFrench Southern Territories: no dataKosovo: no dataN. Cyprus: no dataSomaliland: no data
  • Under 1%
  • 1% to under 5%
  • 5% to under 20%
  • 20% to under 50%
  • 50% or more
  • Not in StatCounter's list there
  • No data

Equal Earth projection. Antarctica and many small places are too small to draw; every figure is in the list below. “Not in StatCounter's list there” means its table for that place does not include Sogou; “No data” means StatCounter returned no table for it. StatCounter Global Stats

All 6 countries and territories with a figure

China 1.71% (#6) Seychelles 0.05% (#8) China, Macao Special Administrative Region 0.03% (#9) Cambodia 0.02% (#11) China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 0.02% (#10) Mongolia 0.02% (#10)

StatCounter Global Stats, October 2026, CC BY-SA 3.0. The number in brackets is its rank in that place.

Recorded markets

The research records China as the main market for Sogou.

Does Sogou use structured data?

The research records no documented support for any structured data format for Sogou. It records 1 rich result type, listed in the next section.

Structured data formats for Sogou
FormatDocumented supportWhat the research records
JSON-LDNot documentedNot mentioned in Sogou's webmaster guide[6] or its resource platform tool help[8].[8]
MicrodataNot documentedNot mentioned in Sogou's webmaster guide[6] or its resource platform tool help[8].[8]
RDFaNot documentedNot mentioned in Sogou's webmaster guide[6] or its resource platform tool help[8].[8]
Open GraphNot documentedNot mentioned in Sogou's webmaster guide[6] or its resource platform tool help[8].[8]
MicroformatsNot documentedNot mentioned in Sogou's webmaster guide[6] or its resource platform tool help[8].[8]
Twitter CardsNot documentedNot mentioned in Sogou's webmaster guide[6] or its resource platform tool help[8].[8]

“Not documented” means the pages read do not say; it does not mean the format is ignored.

Other formats and channels

  • sitemap XML with data/display payloadDocumented

    Only for 移动适配 (PC to mobile URL mapping rules), not for any result feature.[11]

  • XML data feedDocumented

    Partner only. The 立知 Q&A card takes XML from approved partners; the format and samples are handed over after approval and are not published.[14]

Which rich results can Sogou show?

The research records 1 rich result type for Sogou: 1 limited. Each entry shows the schema.org types it is documented for, where the research records them. Valid markup can make a page eligible; it does not guarantee the result.

Limited 1

  • 立知 (Top1 问答卡片, top-position Q&A card) Limited

    Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

    Where: not stated

    Formats: XML data feed

    Approved partners only; applied for by email. Content types 图文 and 视频. Title up to 30 Chinese characters; video under 3 minutes and 30 MB at most. The XML format, samples and keyword packs come from the platform after approval, so no field names are public. The card also reaches QQ Browser and Sogou Browser users.

    Documentation[14]

How does Sogou crawl the web?

The research lists 3 crawler tokens for Sogou: the names a site uses in robots.txt rules, with what each one does where the source says.

Sogou web spider[5]

Sogou inst spider[6]

sogou spider[17]

How do I test my markup for Sogou?

The research records no markup testing tool of its own for Sogou.

Inject the World

Test a page for Sogou

See what the research records for Sogou against the structured data on your page (market: China).

Test a page

What does Sogou ask of site owners?

Its own vocabularies, tags and feeds

  • 立知 partner XML

    XML format for the 立知 card, given only to approved partners together with samples and keyword packs. Not published.[14]

  • 移动适配 XML and TXT rules

    urlset > url (loc) > data > display with pc_url_pattern, url_pattern, pc_sample, wap_sample and version, or a tab-separated TXT form. Maps PC URLs to mobile URLs; review takes about 10 working days.[11]

What could not be verified?

These claims about Sogou came up in the research, but no page that could be read confirms them. They are kept apart, and nothing above rests on them.

  • Other Sogou crawler tokens (Sogou spider2, Sogou blog, Sogou News Spider, Sogou Orion spider), a mobile user agent and full versioned user agent strings.

    Why it is open: No documentation page lists them.

    How it was checked

    These names appear as User-agent lines in https://www.sogou.com/robots.txt[7] but no help page documents them. https://help.sogou.com/spider.html returned 302 Found to https://www.sogou.com/. https://zhanzhang.sogou.com/index.php/help/spiderList (2018) returned no UA or IP detail. The spider help page[5] lists no mobile UA.

  • 搜狗开放平台 accepts structured data (XML) submissions.

    Why it is open: The hosts did not resolve.

    How it was checked

    https://data.open.sogou.com/data-resource/help.html?type=1, https://data.open.sogou.com/data-resource/help.html, https://data.open.sogou.com/data-resource/index.html and http://open.sogou.com/index.php/common/faq all failed with getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND.

  • Field names and schema of the 立知 XML.

    Why it is open: The format is supplied to approved partners only.

    How it was checked

    Fetched the 立知 landing page[13] and handbook[14].

  • Sogou's operator legal entity and its ownership by Tencent.

    Why it is open: No Sogou page fetched states the ownership.

    How it was checked

    The disclaimer page[16] names only 搜狗公司 and does not mention Tencent. The resource platform's contact mailbox is on the tencent.com domain[4, 14].

  • Sogou supports JSON-LD, Microdata, RDFa or Open Graph.

    Why it is open: Not documented on any page fetched.

    How it was checked

    Read sources 3, 6 and 8 and the help center index[15]; the only tag example is meta description.

  • Which Sogou sitemap rules are current.

    Why it is open: Two Sogou pages disagree and neither is dated.

    How it was checked

    Source 9 (resource platform) says sitemap submission is by invitation and caps loc at 256 bytes. Source 10 (help center) allows loc up to 1024 and states no invitation rule.

  • Formats behind 教育灵犀卡 and 翻译灵犀卡 (resource cooperation cards).

    Why it is open: No public spec page found.

    How it was checked

    Both are named in the tool help index[8] only.

  • Full Sogou spider user agent strings and variants.

    Why it is open: The fetched pages name the spider but give no full user agent list.

    How it was checked

    Sources 1 and 2 read; https://help.sogou.com/spider.htm (HTTP 302 to the home page, dead link).

Sources

The pages the research used for Sogou, numbered as cited above. Accessed November 10, 2026 unless shown.

  1. 1.网页收录用户协议_360搜索使用帮助 · 360 Search · in Chinese
  2. 2.360搜索站长平台简介_360搜索使用帮助 · 360 Search · in Chinese
  3. 3.搜狗-帮助中心-站长指南 · Sogou · in Chinese
  4. 4.搜狗资源平台_公平开放的交流平台 · Sogou · in ChinesePartly read
  5. 5.搜狗资源平台_公平开放的交流平台 (爬虫识别 help) · Sogou · in Chinese
  6. 6.站长指南 - 搜狗搜索帮助中心 · Sogou · in Chinese
  7. 7.robots.txt (plain text, no title) · Sogou
  8. 8.搜狗资源平台_公平开放的交流平台 (工具帮助) · Sogou · in Chinese
  9. 9.搜狗资源平台_公平开放的交流平台 (Sitemap提交帮助) · Sogou · in Chinese
  10. 10.提交网站Sitemap - 搜狗搜索帮助中心 · Sogou · in Chinese
  11. 11.搜狗移动适配工具说明 · Sogou · in Chinese
  12. 12.搜索引擎工作原理 · Sogou · in Chinese
  13. 13.搜狗资源平台_公平开放的交流平台 (立知) · Sogou · in Chinese
  14. 14.搜狗资源平台_公平开放的交流平台 (立知问答合作手册) · Sogou · in Chinese
  15. 15.搜狗搜索帮助中心 · Sogou · in Chinese
  16. 16.搜狗-免责声明 · Sogou · in Chinese
  17. 17.搜狗-帮助中心-站长指南 · Sogou · in Chinese

Market share figures: StatCounter Global Stats, search engine market share, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.