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MS's Soapbox opens in Japan

Microsoft’s video sharing site, Soapbox, officially opened in Japan on March 12th. It’s a mirror image of English site, even to the sub-categories, which means that not many Japanese videos are available, yet. In Japan, YouTube is very popular and they opened Japanese site in 2007. Also, NicoNico Douga is very popular with its unique […]

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% of the audience share. Of course Google dominated the study, with 62% audience share, followed […]