ByteDance, the owner of short-video app TikTok, has launched a new search engine in China, entering a sector currently dominated by Baidu.
Beijing-based ByteDance is moving beyond its core businesses in news and video and into work-place messaging and music streaming, competing with Tencent and other Chinese tech firms.
ByteDance, the owner of short-video app TikTok, has launched a new search engine in China, entering a sector currently dominated byBeijing-based ByteDance is moving beyond its core businesses in news and video and into work-place messaging and music streaming, competing withThe domain for the new search engine, Toutiao Search, sits within the company's flagship product — Chinese news aggregator Jinri Toutiao.
Toutiao Search offers censored results like other Chinese search engines, according to searches conducted by Reuters.
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