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Sogou, the search engine unit of Chinese Internet company Sohu.com Inc, is aiming to overtake Google Inc by market share in China within a year in the wake of the US company’s decision to pull out of the world’s biggest web market.
Sogou’s revenue would likely exceed $20 million in the fourth quarter and the company would report a profit next year, Chief Executive Wang Xiaochuan told Reuters in an interview.
“Our search volumes doubled in the past year, which led to very fast growth in our revenue, and I don’t see what’s so difficult about reporting a profit next year,” Wang said. “Our real aim is to overtake Google in China within a year.”