SMX Nanjing
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...
Beijing Olympic Games Search Engine Logos
It won’t come as a surprise to you that today on 08-08-08 at exactly 8 past 8 (If you haven’t guessed it, 8 is a...
China Has 253 Million Users – Largest in the World
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)....
Last Time in China – User Statistics, New Interface, New Instant Messenger
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...
Baidu Adds Obama to Logo
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...
Bloglines Has Stopped Updating Feeds – Make a Backup
Update: Bloglines seems to active again, the plumber must have been busy. Still, making a backup won’t hurt. My favorite RSS Reader Bloglines has stopped...
China Has 210 Million Internet Users
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...
China To Implement (New) Online Video Regulations
According to AP China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos — including those posted on video-sharing Web sites — to sites run...
Netease Searches With Yodao
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...
Last Month in China – A lot of launching
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...
Last Month in China – Baidu, Google and Alibaba
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...
China Has 162 Million Internet Users
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...
Myspace China and MSN China Become Partners
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...
Last Weeks in China – Netease Launched Yodao, Guge Sues Guge, some stats and rumors
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...
Yahoo! Blocked in China
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....
Last week in China – Chinese Eye Tracking Research and more
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...
Google China & Sina Partner for Search & AdWords
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...
Chinese Internet Users Prefer Google Results
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...
Last weeks in China – Video Search, Rumors and a Changed Interface
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...
SES Xiamen – Chinese SEO Lessons
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,...
The SEO State of Chinese Websites
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...
SES Xiamen Impressions
There are 144 million or 150 million or .. Internet users in China (different sources, different stats). A couple of million more or less, on...
Last weeks in China: Name Changes for Yahoo, a Google Logo and Bloggers in China
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...
Google Now Offically Provides Search for Soso
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...
Last week in China – Google Searches In and Outside China and Other News.
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...
Chinese Interview with Matt Cutts and Google Japan Blocked
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...
Last weeks in China – Chinese SEO, Baidu in Japan, Yahoo Search and Blocked Blogs
This week an intro to optimization for Baidu, the difference between Baidu Japan and the Chinese version as well as the latest on Yahoo search....
Last week in China – What Do Chinese Youngster Do Online
As always some news about what Google and Baidu are up to in China but also some interesting results from a user panel with young...
The Oscar Goes To – According to Google Trends
Just a couple of hours to go and it will be clear which movie is getting the Oscar for best film. I was wondering whether...
Last Week in China – Chinese New Year, Baidu in Japan and More Google
The Chinese New Year is a week old now and slowly life is getting back to normal in China. Even the firecrackers will stop waking...