Instead of Google search, Huawei's search engine "Petal Search" is open to China

Nandu News Reporter Cheng Yang Recently, the web version of Petal Search, google's Huawei petal search engine, is open to domestic regions. In 2020, Huawei took the lead in launching the search service Petal Search in overseas markets to replace Google search. At the global launch of the Huawei Mate40 series in October of the same year, Huawei also officially released the important products of HMS, Petal Maps (Petal Map) and Petal Search .)

At the Huawei Developer Conference 2021 in October this year, Zhang Pingan, president of Huawei Consumer Cloud Services and CEO of HUAWEI CLOUD, said that in the digital world, search and maps are very important, but Huawei HMS mobile phones cannot install Google Maps and search, which can be done in external ways, but there is no good experience of APP, and personal data is difficult to save, so Huawei is determined to do it itself.

It is understood that Petal Search is developed by Huawei, and the search content mainly comes from third-party partners, including Qwant, the largest search engine in Europe, and Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia. In June 2021, Huawei said that Petal Search has provided search services in more than 20 vertical fields such as news, apps, shopping, travel, pan-entertainment, and local services for overseas users in more than 170 countries and regions, with more than 18 million monthly active users.

At the Huawei Developer Conference 2021, You Peng, President of Huawei Consumer Cloud Service Search and Map BU, said that search and maps, including advertising, payment, and browsers, are the root services defined by Huawei, and Huawei does root services, on the one hand, forced by external pressure, on the other hand, Huawei has insight into one of the ways in which people and information interact in the future digital world is search, whether it is active search or passive recommendation based on scene perception. So search and mapping are two very important root services for connecting people and virtual worlds in the future.

You Peng introduced at that time that Petal Search has been launched in more than 170 countries overseas, supporting more than 70 languages, with more than 100 million cumulative users and more than 32 million monthly active users. In addition, Petal Maps has been launched in 160 countries overseas, supports 70 languages, and has more than 20 million monthly active users.