Souyo: A New Chinese Blog Search Engine

Souyo: A New Chinese Blog Search Engine

Souyo is the latest Chinese blog search engine, which launched two week ago.

As it said in its homepage, Souyo now indexed over ten million blog posts from about 500 thousand blogs, that is average 20 posts from each blog.

Being a blog search engine, Souyo has most of the necessary functions, i.e. keyword search, tag search, link search and blog rank. In addition, Souyo has some interesting features, such as:

1. Quotation from blogs in their homepage: Souyo extracts random quotation from blogs to show in their homepage automatically.

2. Mini reader: In search result page, you can use its mini reader function under each result to read the post immediately, useful feature, I like it.

Souyo plans to launch a product review search function, but it is still under development and unavailable for test.

Souyo has decent design and well-applied ajax technology. However, for basic search capability, Souyo still has to improve much for it to be useful for users. For example, there are many miscoded Chinese characters you can find in the search result, and it seems Souyo has not fully indexed links of the post, that also makes its blog rank useless. I would suggest they release any new feature until it is really usable.

Anyway, I?m glad to see more blog search engine appear in China, it may press those experienced search engines, as Baidu, to pay more attention on this market.