Qihoo Search: Dead on Arrival?

Launched August 16, Qihoo Search was the latest search engine to hit China and became one of the largest traffic sources in only a matter of days but where do they sit now as the dust settled? Just a little background for you, Qihoo 360 Technology Co. is a Chinese security software company that created a very popular browser in China with almost 300 million users, falling just second behind Internet Explorer. According to iResearch, Qihoo’s browser penetration rate reached 61 percent of all web users in China considering its anti-virus/malware capabilities. Over the summer, coming as a big surprise, in just five short days from the search engine going live, Qihoo 360 nearly overtook Google and Sohu.com in terms of traffic and users. Qihoo Search is now the default search engine on its landing page and on its browsers. According to several analysts and news sources, they’ve...

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