Chinese Internet company Tencent and China Network Television have jointly announced a strategic partnership for a comprehensive social media and microblogging cooperation.

Chinese Internet company Tencent has recently started a marketing campaign for its search engine product in Shanghai and this business promotion will be launched in nine cities in China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Chengdu.

With the slogan of "Soso knows you better", the Chinese Internet company Tencent has announced plans to set up its fifth major business division for the development of search engine services in 2010.

Chinese Internet company Tencent has confirmed that its search engine product Soso.com, which previously adopted Google's search technology, has started to use its self-developed search technology.

Chinese market research firm Analysys International has published its latest report on China's search engine market, and the company states that the Chinese search engine company Baidu.com held 61.6% share of the market in the second quarter of 2009, followed by Google China with a share of 29.1%.

Chinese market research firm Analysys International has published its monitoring report on China's search engine market for the first quarter of 2009, which shows the scale of China's search engine market has reached CNY1.365 billion, a year-on-year increase of 46%, but a decrease of 11% compared with the previous quarter.