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'''Sogou Baike''' ({{zh|s=搜狗百科|hp=Sōugǒu Bǎikē}}); Sogou Encyclopedia, formerly '''Soso Baike''' ({{zh|s=搜搜百科}}) is a Chinese-language collaborative web-based encyclopedia provided by the Chinese tech company [[Sogou]]<ref name="Guo chapter 35"/> and formerly by the search engine [[Soso (search engine)|Soso]]. Sogou is part of [[Tencent]], China's largest internal portal. It was officially launched as Soso Baike in on 30 March 2009.<ref>{{cite news|author=网易|title=搜搜"入赘"搜狗之后，产品如何取舍？|url=http://tech.163.com/14/0307/09/9MNLJO6000094NRG.html|accessdate=20 July 2014|newspaper=网易|date=7 March 2014|archive-date=23 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323150636/http://tech.163.com/14/0307/09/9MNLJO6000094NRG.html|url-status=live |trans-website=Wangyi}}</ref> The Soso Baike officially changed its name to Sogou Baike and launch it in 2013.<ref>{{cite news |script-title=zh:搜狗发布新产品搜狗百科 |url=http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2013-07-12/01338531072.shtml |access-date=6 October 2023 |work=tech.sina.com.cn
| trans-title= Sogou announces new product Sogou Baike}}</ref>
Like [[Wikipedia]], Sogou Baike is a collaboratively written online encyclopedia with user-generated content,<ref>{{cite news |script-title =zh:搜狗百科涉嫌侵权《汉语大词典》 上海辞书出版社索赔2360余万元 | date= 8 August 2018 |url=https://www.nbd.com.cn/articles/2018-08-08/1243327.html |access-date=7 October 2023 |script-work=zh:每经网 | trans-title= Sogou Baike under suspicion of pirating ''Hanyu Da Cidian'' as Shanghai Cishu Chubanshe brings 元23,600,000 lawsuit | author = Liu Chunshan (刘春山) | editor= Zhao Qiao (赵桥)
}}</ref> though it is operated by a for-profit company rather than a non-profit organization.<ref name="Guo chapter 35">{{cite book |last1=Guo |first1=Shaohua | author-mask= Guo Shaohua|chapter=Chapter 35 Online Encyclopedias and Wikis |title=Literary Information in China |date=2021 |pages=340–346 |doi=10.7312/chen19552-039 |publisher=Columbia University Press | editor1= Jack W. Chen | editor2= Anatoly Detwyler | editor3= Xiao Liu | editor4= Christopher M.B. Nugent | editor5= Bruce Rusk  | lccn =  2020035178 | isbn = 9780231551373 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Dechun |title=China's Digital Nationalism: Search Engines and Online Encyclopedias |journal=The Journal of Communication and Media Studies |date=2020 |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=1–19 |doi=10.18848/2470-9247/CGP/v05i02/1-19 |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3763420|hdl=1887/3149273 |ssrn=3763420 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
== Existing problems and defects ==
Although Sosou Baike has a review mechanism similar to Baidu Baike, it is relatively immature. Usually most of the content is discussed and modified by ordinary users, usually in a democratic manner. Sosou Encyclopedia places more emphasis on the opinions of its administrators in this regard, resulting in many malicious entries not being deleted in time, and some entries that are original and attract much attention cannot be promoted. Some parody entries are suspected of infringement and have caused dissatisfaction among netizens. At the same time, some correct modifications failed to pass review, and users were unable to appeal. In addition, some entries that were rated as "high-quality versions" with "rich content", such as the expanded version of the "魔法王国" entry, were deleted without reason.
In its early development, Sogou Baike imitated other encyclopedia products to a certain extent. For example, the content of its help page is very similar to that of Baidu Encyclopedia.<ref>可比较[http://cache.soso.com/baike/baike_rule.htm 搜狗百科帮助页面] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/20160304130042/http://cache.soso.com/baike/baike_rule.htm }}与[http://www.baidu.com/search/baike_help.html 百度百科帮助页面] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/20101015090553/http://www.baidu.com/search/baike_help.html }}</ref> Some comments also pointed out that some of the entries are also imitations of interactive encyclopedia and Baidu Encyclopedia. The content of Encyclopedia and Chinese Wikipedia is copied directly.<ref>{{cite web |last1=朱翊 |title=腾讯百科始浮出，马甲横天抄为先 |url=http://zhuyi.org/blog/post/tencent-wiki.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525053758/http://zhuyi.org/blog/post/tencent-wiki.html |archive-date=2009-05-25 }}</ref>
== Copyright infringement allegations ==
In 2018, the publishers of the [[Hanyu Da Cidian]] sued [[Sogou]], the parent company of Sogou Baike, for copyright infringement within the encyclopedia. The People's Court of Haidian District in Beijing took on the case.<ref>{{Cite web  |date=2018-08-08 |script-title=zh:搜狗百科未经许可使用《汉语大词典》内容，被诉索赔两千余万 |url=https://tech.sina.com.cn/roll/2018-08-08/doc-ihhkuskt8147020.shtml |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=tech.sina.com.cn
| trans-title= Twenty million yuan suit filed against Sogou Baike for unauthorised use of content from ''Hanyu Da Cidian'' }}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Baidu Baike]]
* [[Chinese Wikipedia]]
* [[Hudong Baike]]
==References==
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===General references===
* {{Cite web | url = https://m.163.com/tech/article/9MNLJO6000094NRG.html | script-title= zh:搜搜“入赘”搜狗之后,产品如何取舍?
| script-work=zh:網易 | date= 7 March 2014
| author= Guo Jing (郭静) | access-date= 8 October 2023 | work = Wangyi | trans-title= With Soso's "marriage" into Sogou, how will its offerings help us choose?}}
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