Sogou Strips Its Homepage to a Search Box and an AI Mode Powered by Yuanbao — While Sogou Wenwen Shuts Down on 7 November

Sogou’s homepage has been redesigned down to almost nothing: a new logo and a search box. Inside that box is an “AI mode” button. Chinese product site Woshipm describes the redesign as “a logo and an input box”, with answers and references shown side by side in AI mode. It says the traditional web entry point has been demoted and ...

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