No Google? No problem. Though China’s Baidu is already the country’s answer to the Silicon Valley-based giant that pulled out of the China market in 2011, a new state-run search engine that was unveiled on Saturday is hoping to compete.

The search engine, ChinaSo, is a platform that was born from the merge of two preexisting search engines, Panguso and Jike, which are rarely used. The site’s beta version, which includes image, video and news-search capabilities, was launched on March 1 with a multicolored logo that bears a striking resemblance to the now-iconic Google logo.

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