Tencent's Yuanbao Search launches on web and can be set as default in QQ Browser

On November 11, 2026, Tencent Cloud announced the official launch of Yuanbao Search, a new search product from Tencent. Users can access it by entering so.qq.com in the address bar of any browser, or by upgrading QQ Browser to the latest version and switching to Yuanbao Search in the engine settings. Built on a hundred-billion-scale index, the product reworks the full search pipeline from understanding, retrieval and ranking to answer assembly using the Yuanbao large model. Its coverage spans web pages, WeChat Official Accounts, WeChat Channels and academic literature, with 157 authoritative sources integrated. Search can be entered by typing, speaking or photographing, and the team says a recursive self-improvement (RSI) mechanism will keep refining the experience based on usage and feedback.

On the same day, Li Ruizhang, product lead for the web version of Yuanbao Search, said results from authoritative institutions and official sources are surfaced first. He stated the team does not reject advertising, but users should not have to hunt for answers inside ads, so the product keeps a restrained approach and separates ads from answers clearly, with ads collapsible as whole blocks. He added that Yuanbao Search will not evolve toward an AI assistant and will stay focused on search itself. November 11 also marked Tencent's 28th anniversary. On November 12, Bluedot reported the product was still in testing, combining AI summaries with follow-up questioning, and that commercialization would come later. A 36Kr report that day noted the underlying capability had previously been offered only to developers and enterprises through Tencent Cloud, while the web version shares the same technical base and already supports more than 50 core services, including WorkBuddy and ima, with daily calls reaching hundreds of millions, positioning the launch as an effort to win a default search entry point.