Finally, Google made the drastic move top stop censoring its search services on Google.cn. Starting today, users visiting the site will be redirected to Google.com.hk where searches in simplified Chinese are not censored. Google.com.hk was specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via Google’s servers in Hong Kong. Users will notice a slowdown [...]

Last year I attended SES Xiamen and reading back the articles I wrote back then they still stand for a big part, especially the one called Chinese lessons. This year’s conference was held in a hazy Nanjing, 2.5 hours by fast train from Shanghai, and organized by Timev and SMX.There were three conferences going on [...]

China has now 253 million internet users according to the latest report of the China Internet Network Information Centre (The CNNIC is a government agency). That’s 43 million users more than the last report released at the end of last year and it also makes it the world leader in Internet users. 253 million internet [...]

Yesterday, the 19th of May 2008, the three days of national mourning started in China to commemorate the now already more than 30.000 victims of Monday’s earthquake in Sichuan, China. All the Chinese search engines, as well as major portals, video sharing websites and many others will be in black and white during these 3 [...]

China has now more internet users than the US. That was one of the items that made its way into almost all news media in the middle of March. Linking China and the internet makes a newsworthy item these days. More about that later on. First look at what Google has changed about their interface, [...]

Baidu, the leading search engine in China, is getting involved in the coming US Presidential elections it seems. They have added a caricature of Barack Obama and the democrat donkey in the Baidu logo. From the China Perspective: This is only the sixth time that Baidu has dedicated its homepage to an individual. Baidu has [...]

China has now 210 million users according to a press release from the China Internet Network Information Centre (The CNNIC is a government agency). That’s a lot, considering that half a year ago there were only 165 million users and a year ago 137 million. In one year the number of users has gone up [...]

According to AP China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos — including those posted on video-sharing Web sites — to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government. The article also mentions that the regulations will take effect Jan. 31. According to the new regulations [...]