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dub3's pixel tribute to Sogou in 2004: a Web 2.0-era search engine
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2004 page

dub3 card · www.sogou.com

Sogou (2004)

Did you mean: everything?

Cost
4 RAM
Power
6
Rarity
Common
Family
Search
Era
Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
Collection
The Long Tail

What it does

Ongoing: +1 Power to this card for each card you have here, up to +3.

Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.

It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 6 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.

Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.

The site, in 2004

A Chinese search engine that began as a division of the portal Sohu. Its name means 'search dog'.

Tencent invested $448 million for a minority share in 2013 and finished acquiring it in 2021. Its Beijing offices sit by Tsinghua University.

Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.

The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2004 page.

Put it on your site

Run Sogou, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:

Sogou is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2004, then plays a short scene. Want Sogou in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.