Baidu took 73.2% Chinese search share in 2008
Chinese research company, iResearch, reported that Baidu had 73.2% search market share in 2008. (72.6% in 2007) The top 3 engines in China in 2008 were Baidu, Google and Yahoo.
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50 million bloggers in China
According to China Internet Association, there are more than 50 million blogger in China as of November 2008. The number of blogs has reached 100 million. There are 290 million Internet users in China right now.
Baidu unveils the 'Aladdin Plan' to reveal hidden web
Baidu, the world’s largest Chinese search engine, announced the opening of a Shanghai research and development center to implement the “Aladdin Plan” in order to identifying the ‘Hidden Web’. The Hidden Web, also know as ‘Deepnet’ or, the ‘Invisible Web’ … Read More
Baidu's Robin Li to keynote at ad:tech Shanghai
Robin Li, CEO of the world’s leading Chinese search engine Baidu, will be the keynote speaker at ad:tech. ad:tech, a global interactive marketing event, will be held in Shanghai, Novermber 25 – 26, 2008 at the Shanghai International Convention and … Read More
B2B search engine Accoona acquired by Masterseek
Accoona, a b2b search engine, was recently acquired by the Masterseek, a global business search engine. “Masterseek is a virtual showroom to search out business information about others and to guide and update the information available on your own company.” … Read More
Baidu launches C2C marketplace "Youa"
Baidu, the world’s leading Chinese search engine, officially launched their consumer to consumer e-commerce platform “Youa”. Baidu has their own branded online payment system called BaiFuBao, to make purchases on Youa. Youa was previously available to 10,000 pre-approved sellers and … Read More
China (.cn) is now the world’s most popular country code
For a number of years, Germany (.de) was the world’s most popular ccTLD in terms of registrations. But about two years ago China made its ccTLD a lot more affordable and easier to get. Since then, the country has been … Read More
China Mobile – a bigger internet player than Google globally – discuss?
The largest company in the WebCertain ‘internet companies extract’ of the FT Global 500 is Hong Kong’s China Mobile with a staggering market value of $298 billion, beating Google into a cocked hat in 12th place at a ‘tiny’ $104 … Read More
Baidu found guilty in advertising legal battle
The largest Chinese search engine, Baidu, was found guilty of “a breach of reasonable standard of care” by the Shanghai No.2 Intermediate People’s Court. The case involved a transportation company, Dazhong Banchang, whose company name was used in advertisements from … Read More
Facebook faces Chinese market with Chinese interface
A fascinating experiment in internet culture has been launched by Facebook who have localised their interface to the Chinese markets. As the Chinese markets are very concerned about ‘face’ – how will they cope with a ‘face’ book that means … Read More
Asia-Pacific search engine rankings for April 2008
comScore just released an interesting data about the search rankings in Asia-Pacific region. According to their data, Google and Yahoo were the regional leaders as “top search properties” followed by China’s Baidu. “Because Google and Yahoo! have a strong presence … Read More
China blocks YouTube after Tibetan protests
China has apparently blocked access to YouTube.com after video clips appeared on the website showing massive pro-independence protests in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Internet users that were trying to access YouTube were served a blank screen. This isn’t the … Read More
China takes the lead in internet users
According to estimates from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Beijing research firm BDA and the online market anlayst Nielsen/NetRatings, China has overtaken the US in the number of internet users at around 220 million. These numbers were estimated … Read More
China Baidu ranked third largest worldwide search property
ComScore have released new statistics showing that the Chinese search giant, Baidu is now the third largest worldwide search property. In December 2007 there were 66.2billion search queries made worldwide, 3.4billion of them were done at Baidu giving it 5.2% … Read More
Baidu, Omniture form strategic alliance
Omniture Inc., a leading provider of online business software, announced they will provide Baidu.com, the leading Chinese Internet search engine, technology to measure online marketing campaigns. According to the companies, combining their technologies will allow marketers the ability to analyze … Read More
