Shenma Inc. (Chinese:
Type of site | Private |
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Founded | April 2014 |
Headquarters | Beijing, China |
Owner | Alibaba Group and UCWeb |
Key people | Liang Jie, President |
Industry | Internet |
URL | sm.cn |
Litigation
editOn April 13, 2020, Shenma filed a lawsuit against Sogou for traffic hijacking.
In the filing, the mobile search company accused Sougou of misleading and reeling in potential Shenma users through Sogou Input Method, and for illegally trafficking data. Shenma told the court that the hijacked traffic data reached 1.897 billion.[7] Shenma was seeking RMB 102 million (around $16 million in American dollars) in compensation.[8]
On June 27, 2019, the Beijing Haidian Court ruled that the Sogou search company was guilty of hijacking UC browser and Shenma search traffic through candidate words, constituted unfair competition. They were sentenced to pay a fine of 20 million yuan.[9][10]
References
edit- ^ Alibaba, UCWeb Team Up In Mobile Search Archived 2017-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, Forbes, April 28, 2014
- ^ Clover, Charles (2014-04-28). "Alibaba launches mobile-first search engine". Financial Times. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
- ^ Alibaba, UCWeb plan mobile-search joint venture Archived 2018-02-01 at the Wayback Machine, MarketWatch, Apr 28, 2014
- ^ Alibaba, UCWeb Team Up In Mobile Search Archived 2017-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, Forbes magazine, Apr 28. 2014
- ^ "What is Shenma Search? China's Lesser-known Mobile Chinese Search Engine". Nanjing Marketing Group. 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
- ^ "Alibaba Shenma Search Engine Insights – China Internet Watch". www.chinainternetwatch.com. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
- ^ "Shenma v. Sogou hijacking traffic case sentenced to judge Sogou compensation 20 million yuan_China IT News". www.firstxw.com. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
- ^ "China's top mobile search engines Shenma and Sogou in $17M lawsuit for traffic hijacking". TechNode. 2018-04-13. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
- ^ "Shenma v. Sogou hijacking traffic case sentenced to judge Sogou compensation 20 million yuan_China IT News". www.firstxw.com. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
- ^ "Court Orders Sogou to Recompense Baidu, Others for Hijacking Search Engine Traffic". www.yicaiglobal.com. Retrieved 2020-08-06.