Keynote Systems (Nasdaq “KEYN”), conducted a study of 1,200 internet users in China and Google outperformed its competitors in 11 of 13 factors measured. Chris Sherman, Associate Editor at Search Engine Watch blogs about this study and adds some great … Read More
The China Search Marketing Tour will visit Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing where the participants will attend the first Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo to be held in China. As you’ve no doubt read here at Multilingual Search, the China … Read More
Microsoft in a bid to keep up with Baidu, Yahoo! China and Google has opened an “adlab” in China. This research lab will focus on improving Microsoft’s pay per click advertising program, adCenter. Microsoft originally tested adCenter in Singapore. Source: … Read More
Since my fellow contributing editors are providing information about regional search engines, I decided to post an article I wrote prior to speaking at Search Engine Strategies “Global Search Landscape” session in Chicago. Our own Andy Atkins-Kruger, Web Certain and … Read More
Sogou, which means “search dog”, is seeking a spokesdog for their search engine. The winner gets an annual salary of 100,000 yuan which is about $12,000 USD. Considering the average salary in China is about a tenth of that, it … Read More
Google and Microsoft reached an agreement ending the lawsuit Microsoft had filed against Google in the matter of Dr. Lee Kai Fu. Microsoft filed the lawsuit in September in order to enforce Lee’s one year non compete agreement. Google hired … Read More
Yahoo! China will provide free websites for small and medium enterprises (SME’s) in a move to jumpstart e-commerce in China. It will also increase Yahoo! China’s base of businesses for advertising opportunities. With more than 23 million SMEs in China, … Read More
MSN has licensed Basis Technology’s Rosette(R) language analyzers for Chinese and Japanese to assist with their efforts in the Asian search market. Microsoft has been using the Rosette Linguistic Platform since they launched MSN Search in late 2004. %GC_SERVICE=1211% “Asia … Read More
Keynote Systems (Nasdaq “KEYN”) a provider of e-business performance management services will undertake a study of China’s rapidly growing and highly competitive search engine market. The study will evalute Yahoo! China, Baidu, Google China and Sohu/Sogou incorporating 1,200 Chinese Internet … Read More
Yahoo! China is in talks with the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) about the search engine industry in China. It wasn’t reported exactly what these discussions entail but you have to wonder what Baidu, Google, MSN, Sina, Sohu and … Read More
More than 3,800 file sharers in HongKong, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland and Argentina are facing criminal charges in this fourth wave of the international crackdown on piracy. The crackdown was initiated by the International Federation of Phonogram and Videogram Producers (IFPI) … Read More
As the Chinese search engine battle heats up, Alibaba’s Jack Ma sets his sights on the gold medal with a relaunch of Yahoo! China. Goodbye portal, hello search! According to investment bank Piper Jaffray, daily searches by Internet users in … Read More
Autonomy launched its service of a joint venture with China Netcom Broadband (CNCBB), one of China’s largest Internet companies, in an effort to upstage Google and Yahoo. This joint venture allows the Chinese to search the Internet for news and … Read More
Online payments in China have been capped to 1,000RMB (US$123.53) per transaction in a fraud prevention measure. A variety of obstacles besides the legal, regulatory and political issues, stand in the way of assured e-commerce success. A lack of credit … Read More
Baidu.com saw nearly triple sales growth but watched its stock prices drop over concerns that they were rising too quickly. Baidu entered the stock market in August and saw it shares open at $27, trade as high as $153, but … Read More
