There has already been rumor circulating that Tencent is going to do ranking business, the news said the new system had entered the final testing stage, and would be launched during this year. More news that Tencent has commissioned a number of advertising agency to recruit investments for Sou Sou beta.

In response to this argument, Liu Shihui, director of public relations of Tencent today told Ji Shi Net, “Tencent has continued to optimize its own search businesses, Sou Sou at this stage is still focused on the development of search experience and technical strength upgrading,” he said at the same time that at present, Tencent “in the search business model is still at the exploratory stage, we will continue to pay attention to a wide range of business models in search engine area, and try as we go.” As for other issues, he did not respond.

Insiders believed that the introduction of competitive Tencent ranking model was a sign of confrontation with Baidu, with a great online user base, Tencent had become one of the few Internet company that can launch a powerful challenge to the Baidu, Google and other search giants.

It is known that the bid ranking in the search engine was once considered one of the most successful business models, but in recent years because of the injust ranking or mixed information result of Baidu, Baidu was repeatedly criticized by the industry. China Central Television has a number of columns coverage criticizing it.