Overview
- Tencent made Yuanbao Search publicly available on November 11, 2026 at so.qq.com and as a switchable engine in the latest QQ Browser.
- The service runs on the company’s Yuanbao large model and rebuilds the whole search pipeline from query understanding to retrieval, ranking and answer organization.
- Tencent says the product uses a billion-scale index that covers web pages, WeChat public accounts, video accounts and academic literature and has connected 157 authoritative sources.
- The company will keep advertising but runs ads on an independent path from organic results, offers a one-click ‘collapse ads’ option and says users should not have to find answers inside ads.
- Tencent plans to press for default-entry browser traffic for Yuanbao Search while keeping the Sogou brand for existing users and will focus first on user feedback and retention to measure success.