TECH CRUNCH - Feb 19 - More than two years after Douyin incorporated a search function back in mid-2018, the feature reached 550M monthly active users. There's still room for Douyin's search feature to grow, as the app last reported 600M daily users in September, so its monthly user base should be above that. Search is a territory that had long been dominated by Baidu in China. As of December, Baidu's flagship app had 544 million monthly active users, so it's safe to say as many people are searching on Douyin as on Baidu.