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 …
Netease, the company that operates popular portal 163.com and is big in offering online games has re-launched their search engine Yodao with some new features like news search. Tweet Buffer
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
