Petal Search (formerly Huawei Search)

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Petal Search is a search aggregator developed by Huawei.

2022: Integration with taxi ordering service "Maxim"

The Petal Search application now recommends users to order a taxi in the Maxim service. The developer of the Maxim service announced this on March 17, 2022. More details here.

2021: Travel Service Launch - Petal Search Travel

On April 8, 2021, Huawei introduced the Petal Search Travel service, which allows the user to plan their journey from start to finish. The service combines offers from partners in various categories - from air tickets to hotels and apartments. The app also determines the location and offers information about key attractions and entertainment nearby.

Thanks to the support of Huawei specialists around the world, Petal Search Near provides a selection of local institutions in each of the 170 countries of the world: author's restaurants, family cafes and taverns, unusual locations. All this allows you to collect recommendations for a future trip in one place and enjoy the rest as much as possible.

Petal Search Travel also includes a digital platform for representatives of the hotel and travel business - Travel Channel. With this tool, owners can add information about their business to potential customers. For the period of registration and familiarity with Travel Channel, each of the partners receives full support from Huawei specialists, so the integration process is fast and easy.

Petal Search allows you to search in more than 15 categories, including news, travel, shopping and more. The service for April 2021 operates in more than 170 countries and regions, and is available both for Huawei smartphone owners and for users of any other Android-based phones.

The service is constantly joined by partners who can offer a multi-million audience of users their services in various fields. Petal Search focuses on localizing search results and provides the most relevant query output, based both on information from global partners and local market data.

Huawei is constantly working on improving and updating the Petal Search search aggregator, adding features, improving design and security for comfortable interaction with the service. Huawei aims to help partner companies interact more effectively with customers, and users more quickly find the right applications, news and images with Petal Search.

2020

Availability in AppGallery to Russian users

The Petal Search system has become available in the official app store AppGallery all owners of Huawei and Honor devices. This was announced on August 19, 2020 by Huawei. The application is a full-fledged service with support for HMS (Huawei Mobile Services).

The Petal Search service, based on the Petal search engine, is an application distribution aggregator and search engine. The Petal Search launch page contains a constantly updating current news feed with a search string where you can find any information of interest. The service has a system of recommendations and collections of local applications, as well as a global search by region and language.

Petal Search offers advanced search capabilities for information and applications and provides relevant results personalized to the user. At the same time, the application combines hardware-level security technologies and personal data protection. Petal Search looks for applications in various sources and always indicates the origin of the original.

The Huawei AppGallery service is fully integrated into the search, so the applications available in the store appear at the top of the list of results.

Petal Search scans the Internet using indexing technology developed by Huawei and uses information from partners, which allows users to provide up-to-date and complete search results, including applications, news, movies, music tracks and other content, the company noted.

Search results are sorted by relevance, source authority, publication date, and a variety of other factors determined by the ranking algorithm. As in traditional search engines, the algorithm works in a fully automatic mode and does not allow manipulation and manual correction.

Petal Search Launches

In mid-May 2020, Huawei officially introduced its Petal Search engine. The company, being under US sanctions, has lost access to Google services, so it is developing its own alternative products.

In Petal Search, users can not only search for the necessary information, but also view news, weather forecast, video, listen to music, book hotel rooms and download applications. In addition, Huawei promises to gradually expand the functionality of the service.

Huawei launched its search engine

The company has been developing this service for more than a year. During the tests, the search service was called Huawei Search, and the system was tested since February 2020. A stable version of Petal Search appeared for download in the Huawei online store in May.

Thanks to the new platform, Petal Search allows you to easily find applications from third-party sources, and then download and install APK. If the application you are looking for is available in the AppGallery, then the user is forwarded to the store, and if not, they will be sent to a third-party platform, such as APKPure, for download and installation. While the range of AppGallery is limited, and of course, it is still impossible to install Facebook, Instagram and other popular American services there.

Petal Search is available in AppGallery as a "super application" combining several services. The new application and its functions may not yet be available in all countries by May 23.

Earlier in May, it was reported that Google asked the US government for permission to resume cooperation with Huawei. The German Finanzen portal explained that the vice president of Google for Android Samir Sama (Samir Sama) addressed with such request to the U.S. Government. By May 23, 2020, the government did not respond to the request.^[1]

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