Baidu, the leading search engine in China, has signed a deal with the affiliate of Mozilla in China to embed all the search engine's functions in the Firefox browser for a fee. Until now Baidu's seach engine had been integrated on a limited basis. It's not clear, at least to me, how "users of the Chinese Firefox would be able to do online search more conveniently" compared to before. The market share of Firefox in...
Since my last update on the Chinese search world all the major players have been very active in launching new channels and products. I like to start with the latest report from China IntelliConsulting Corporation (CIC) that researched the current market shares of the search engines in China. CIC conducted a survey in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou (the most urbanized and modern cities of China). The main conclusion, based on the last 12 months,...
It has been some time since my last overview of the latest "What happened in China". I just blame it on buying an apartment in Shanghai:).
There has happened a lot and I will highlight the most significant. Baidu is yet again offering more services, Google revives Answers, Yahoo resumes real name service and Alibaba starts an ad exchange. First something else.
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There were about 162 million internet users at the end of June 2007 according to the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) Yesterday the CNNIC released her latest report. Since 1997 they publish the results of their surveys each half year. This report shows that since the end of 2006, there are 25 million(18.25%) more netizens in China. That's a big jump and China is closing in on the United States rapidly (estimations for the US...
Yesterday I mentioned in the my post that there was a rumor that MSN Live Pages and Myspace.cn would merge. The rumor was denied but a well known blogger wrote in a comment, "The news was likely to be true, just wait for a few moments.
Today it was announced that Myspace China will partner with MSN China to provide services to MSN China’s users.
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Some newsworthy tidbits that happened in the last weeks. Let's start with something legal. Guge sues Guge Google carries the name Guge in China. There's also the Beijing Guge Science and Technology Ltd. company. It seems, but not all is clear here yet, that said Beijing company started operating under the name Guge just one week after Google announced their Chinese name. Now they want to sue Google Guge and force it to change its name. The...
Guess what... Yahoo.com is available again:) Would love to know what the cause was of their unavailability. I'll keep monitoring to see if things change. Yesterday China Herald tipped me that the Yahoo.com website (the English version) didn't resolve. I checked, saw that it was true and thought I would check back the next day if the situation had changed. At times these things happen here in China and it could have been a technical...
A recent eye tracking research from Enquiro looked into Chinese user behavior regarding search results in Baidu and Google. Gord Hotchkiss wrote about this on Search Engine Land. According to this interesting study there are considerable differences between how users interact with the results. (The research has also looked at the difference between user interaction on Google.com an Google.cn. I'll focus here more on the differences between Google.cn and Baidu.com). I have...
Google will cooperate with Sina, one of the top portals in China, on search and advertising. Sina has already added Google's search box to their portal.
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What do you get when 2,740 Chinese internet users don't know which search engine they're using? Surprisingly the outcome is that the majority favors the Google results over Baidu's results. Chinese research company Intelliconsulting released a report (in Chinese) on the search result preferences of 2,740 web users that participated in a 12 day blind test. Whenever they did a search during the test period they didn’t know whether they were searching with Baidu or...
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