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 50,000 participants in closed beta testing. Youa will compete with

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 another company. Baidu argued that it is only the advertiser

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 first time YouTube has been blocked in China. The last

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 based on the online growth of 53.3% in 2007. The

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 how Chinese Internet users are influenced by online marketing. International

comScore, Inc., an internet research firm, recently released the Worldwide Search Top 10 report. Two of China’s search properties, Baidu.com and Alibaba.com ranked third and tenth resectively in that report. It was the first time Alibaba made the list with 0.8 percent of the the 66.2 billion searches conducted worldwide

The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a non profit state network information center founded in 1997, recently released its year end report on development of the Internet in China. Based on that report the number of Chinese Internet users reached 210 million in 2007. This was an increase of

Third Door Media, Inc. producer of the Search Marketing Expo events, the Search Engine Land news site and the Search Marketing Now webcast series, announced they will produce Search Markekting Expo (SMX) events in Xiamen and Shanghai, China this year. Third Door Media has partnered with TimeV Media, an internet

Youku.com, a video sharing website in China, had more than 12 million daily unique visitors during a week in December 2007, according to a report by Internet media and market research firm Nielsen/NetRatings. Youku had a 20-fold increase in its daily video views and daily unique visitors to become one

Yahoo! China lost their appeal to the Beijing Higher People’s Court who upheld a lower court’s ruling in April that the company had violated copyright laws. Yahoo! China has insisted all along that it only provides links to websites for music search results and they should not be held liable