What has been happening in the last 2 weeks in the world of the search engines in China. Here’s the overview Baidu Video Search, and Denied Rumors Since the beginning of this year Baidu has it’s own video search, which is still officially in Beta. In May, they started a cooperation with Video-sharing website KU6. …
The 2 day SES conference in Xiamen 2007 was full of information for the participants. There were panels on buying search engine advertising, marketing research, link building, case studies, domain strategies and lessons from spamming. I wasn’t able to go to all of them but there are certain points that I picked up that can …
The star Chinese speaker on SES Xiamen 2007 in my eyes was Stone Chen, from Dunsh.org. In one of the session he delved into the current state of Chinese (corporate) websites and their issues. It was a good lesson on what needs to be improved, but as it not only applies to Chinese websites I …
There are 144 million or 150 million or .. Internet users in China (different sources, different stats). A couple of million more or less, on the whole it doesn’t matter too much. It’s a big number and it’s growing. At the same time Chinese online marketers are getting ready to target these users. I attended …
Having been out of the news loop for some weeks (It’s great to be without the Internet sometimes) due to an extended holiday in Yunnan I had to catch up on what has been happening in China. A lot it seems and hence I have made an overview of the interesting tidbits in the Chinese …
It’s official. What everyone in the Chinese search industry already knew will now be visualized. From Pacific Epoch: All Soso.com search results are marked with a “Powered by Google” tag, including websites, music and image searches. The two parties have been cooperating on search and advertising services since December 2005. Reports from when Soso.com was …
One of the peculiarities with Google search in China is the question of domains. Which Google domain censors search results, which does not and does it depend on the location the searcher originates. I have made a quick comparison. Additionally as always an overview of what has been happening in the world of search and …
Myspace China is live. It was already rumoured a couple of days ago that it would be launched soon. From Shanghaiist: Remember we told you MySpace China would come online yesterday? Well, we lied. Actually, Sohu IT lied — they got some bad info. Thankfully they weren’t too far off. As of now 1 am …
According to market research firm Millward Brown Google is now the most powerful brand in the world overtaking last years winner Microsoft. From the press release: Google has risen to the top of this year’s ranking, taking the number one spot with a brand value of $66,434 million. This was followed by General Electric ($61,880 …
This week more on SEO in China from an interview with Matt Cutts and Jianfei. Also Chinese firewall news that shows that even Baidu can be affected and surprise, even more restrictions on the Internet, this time for gamers. Matt Cutts and Jianfei Chinese Interview In the last installment I referred to Fili’s article on …
