Sogou Explorer

2008 – present Active

80

Chinese dual-engine browser (WebKit/Chromium + Trident) from Sogou (a Tencent subsidiary), with cloud-based malicious site detection.

Facts

Developer

Sogou (Tencent)

Website

ie.sogou.com

Engines

TridentBlinkWebKit (iOS)

Derived from

Chromium

Platforms

WindowsAndroidiOS

Details

iOS version based on WebKit (Apple rule 2.5.6)

Popularity

80/100

Key versions

1. Dec. 22, 2008
   1.0TridentLaunch of the Windows browser from Sogou (a Sohu subsidiary), with cloud-based malicious-site detection.[1]
2. 2010
   2.0WebKit + TridentMoves to a “dual-core” design: Chrome's WebKit engine plus Internet Explorer's Trident.[2]
3. Nov. 29, 2011
   3.1Release issued during the 2011 security incident, free of the Chromium 6.0 kernel flaw.[1]
4. Nov. 20, 2012
   iOSWebKitSogou’s mobile browser launches on iPhone, synced with the PC version.[3]
5. May 31, 2013
   AndroidVersion 1.0 of Sogou’s mobile browser is released for Android.[4]
6. Aug. 2015
   6.0WebKit + TridentFinal release billed as opening the browser and home page in under a second.[1]
7. Apr. 15, 2022
   11.0.1.34700Latest version listed by the Chinese Wikipedia.[1]

Version sources: [1] 搜狗浏览器 (Wikipedia zh), [2] Sogou (Wikipedia en), [3] liulanmi.com, [4] cs.sina.com.cn

Sources

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogou
2. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
3. https://ie.sogou.com/
4. https://sogou.browser.qq.com/
5. https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/id548608066