Baidu and Alibaba in top ten global search property ranks
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 in December of 2007. Alibaba.com, […]
210 million Internet users in China, 84% still not online
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 more than 73 million over […]
Search Marketing Expo (SMX) announces China events
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 and search marketing conference producer […]
Youku grows in China as video sharing sites up in the air
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 of the fastest growing websites […]
Yahoo! China loses, Baidu wins copyright lawsuit
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 for content provided by those […]
Google sued over name "Guge" in China
Beijing Guge Sci-Tech alleges that Google has infringed on the firm’s name. According to the court documents, the name “Guge” was officially registered in April 2006 by Beijing Guge Sci-Tech and Google didn’t register the name until November of 2007. Google’s response is that reports on the Internet showed that it intended to use the […]
Baidu's person of the month
Baidu does a new take on the Google logos. It’s the person(s) of the month which started in November with a Mr. Xu Sandou, a famous soap opera star in China. This month features Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, two Chinese basketball players that have made it into the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the […]
China's online shoppers to reach 100 million in 2010
Acording to a recent report by iResearch, an internet marketing research company in China, the number of online shoppers is predicted to reach 100 million in 2010. The popularity of C2C sites like www.taobao.com and ebay.com.cn has given China netizens the opportunity to “test drive” ecommerce. The recent improvement in logistics, payment, credit and network […]
China's Baidu pondering Hong Kong listing
Baidu, the leading Chinese search engine is contemplating a secondary share listing in Hong Kong. Baidu is currently listed on the Nasdaq (BIDU) and is one of Google’s strongest rivals in China. The idea may have been brought about by the successful listing of Alibaba.com this past Tuesday. Alibaba, a B2B website that is 40% […]
ComScore turns attention to worldwide search activity
The research group comScore has released their first report looking at worldwide search activity, carried out over the month of August. Interesting reading to those dealing with multilingual marketing and a sign of the growing importance of this sector. The Asia-Pacific region, which includes large markets such as China, Japan and India, saw 258 million […]