Soso () was a Chinese

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owned by Tencent Holdings Limited, which is well known for its other creations Pengyou and QQ. , Soso was ranked as the 33rd most visited website in the world, the 11th most visited website in China, and the number eight most visited website in

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, according to

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. In September 2013, Tencent invested in

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, a subsidiary of

Sohu Sohu, Inc. () is a Chinese Internet company headquartered in the Sohu Internet Plaza in Haidian District, Beijing. Sohu and its subsidiaries offer advertising, a search engine (Sogou.com), on-line multiplayer gaming (ChangYou.com) and other se ...

. At this point, Soso discontinued services and now redirects to Sogou Search. Sogou also has search results in English which is powered by

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