Tencent Puts an Answer Engine in the URL Bar
Yuanbao Search ships as a browser-level entry point rather than another standalone app.
Tencent launched Yuanbao Search on 11 November 2026, reachable by typing so.qq.com into any browser address bar, or by selecting it as the default engine in an updated QQ Browser. The product rebuilds the entire search chain, from query understanding through retrieval, ranking and answer assembly, on the Yuanbao model. It draws on a hundred-billion-page index covering the open web, WeChat official accounts, video accounts and academic literature, and connects 157 authoritative sources. Two design choices matter for marketers: results prioritise official and institutional sources, and advertising sits in a separately labelled module that begins collapsed, with an explicit commitment that ads will not masquerade as answers.