Tencent launched Yuanbao Search on November 11, 2026, according to IT Home. The company says the product prioritizes content from authoritative institutions and official sources. It also says ads are clearly separated from answers and that users can collapse an entire ad section.
Li Ruizhang, who leads the web version of Yuanbao Search, told Sina Tech that Tencent does not rule out advertising, but users should not have to look through ads to find answers. He said the team is trying to balance advertising with user needs: when someone searches for a specific service, relevant product content may be shown for that person to assess.
IT Home previously reported that Yuanbao Search uses Yuanbao’s large-model capabilities across query understanding, retrieval, ranking and answer organization. Its reported search scope includes web pages, WeChat Official Accounts, WeChat Channels and academic literature, supported by an index on the scale of hundreds of billions.
