Baidu and eBay China Partner Up EachNet, the Chinese auction website of eBay, has expanded their partnership with Baidu, the leading search engine in China. From Newsweek: Under terms of the agreement, Baidu will promote PayPal Beibao, PayPal’s service in China, as the preferred payment method on Baidu. In return, eBay EachNet will use Baidu …
Microsoft Ponders Leaving China, Blogspot Blocking and Other Non-issues China is in the news for many reasons but when it comes to the Internet one of the the main stays is the blocking of websites, persecuting of bloggers that cause social unrest with their writings and making foreign internet companies comply with national laws in …
Popular Searches in China Google Zeitgeist published the popular Chinese searches in the month August. Google added China again to its monthly zeitgeist in March 2006 and it gives a nice insight in the world of Chinese search. In a previous article I attempted to analyze the popular Chinese queries from March until July 2006. …
Wikipedia Unblocked in China for All Languages But Chinese Update It seems the Chinese version of Wikipedia is slowly getting unblocked. In Shanghai it loads without a problem for now. Andrew Lih is keeping track of the areas in China where it has become available and the ones that still have no access. — Wikipedia …
Google Stops Singing the Harvest Song in China Update Google China decided to sing again as Imagethief rightly points out. The Guge logo is back. Guge.com and Guge.cn for some reason still re-direct to the uncensored Google.com. Google China has ditched their Guge logo and retracted to their well known “Google” logo. 10 days ago …
eBay China Rumors A lot of rumours about the future of eBay’s China division (eBay Eachnet) and its PayPal service are finding its way over the web. The most cited one is that eBay Eachnet and it’s paypal service will be sold to HONG Kong-listed Tom.com, a media company that already distributes Skype (owned by …
MySpace Comes to China Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp intends to have another go at the China Market. After leaving the Chinese TV Market in June this year New Media will be the next attempt. From the Financial Times: Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday that his wife, Wendy Deng, was working with senior News Corp executives …
Google Losing Market Share in China Two research reports (Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou internet users were interviewed) have been released about the Search Engines Market in China and both come to the same conclusion. The only part they differ on is the percentage of loss. The China Internet Marketing Network Information Center (CNNIC) puts Google’s …
