Chinese hate voicemail
There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today about how the Chinese hate to use voicemail. Basically it interferes with their culture. Leaving messages for people of lower status is seen as a loss of face. Most meetings are done face-to-face so people are never at their desks. They all carry cell […]
Keynote to undertake China search engines study
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 users. This is a huge undertaking and the first of its kind, although Keynote has […]
Yahoo! China to help set new search guidelines with CNNIC
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 others have to say about it. Jack Ma seems to be wasting no time getting […]
Shopping engine Smarter.com launches in China and Japan
Shopping engine, Smarter.com has launched in China and Japan according to Gary Price over at Search Engine Watch. Obviously the growth of consumers in China has made this a profitable target. The web design of the Chinese site is closer to the US design, while the Japanese one has more graphics as most Japanese sites […]
China's Baidu.com sees shares drop as profits rise
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 is trading today at $69. Goldman Sachs analyst, Anthony Noto said earlier this year in […]
Livedoor/SDI tie-up for online ad services for China
October 26: One of Japan’s major internet service providers Livedoor (corp.livedoor.com) will provide the online marketing services to Chinese market together with Strategic Desision Initiative Ltd. (www.strategicdi.com) through Livedoor’s Chinese portal site “MyRice” (www.myrice.com). The services include; internet advertising, e-mail promotion, and internet/mobile research services as well as website design and the hosting services.
China imposes tougher rules on internet news
China is regularly in the news these days as the Chinese market hots up and becomes more search engine competitive – but if you’re in China you may not see that news, following new regulations announced and implemented today, reports Reuters. Complying with the rules on internet news is somewhat tricky – as the Xinhua […]
Baidu found to be allowing music downloading in China
An interesting story has been travelling around the media in Europe this week as Baidu – the leading Chinese search engine – has defended itself from major music labels concerning music downloading. Baidu has strongly protested its innocence claiming that it is only providing search engine type access to sites where downloading is possible and […]
China internet industry predicted to surpass Japan in 10 years
An analyst at Morgan Stanley predicted China’s internet industry will surpass Japan with 10 years, an article at Yahoo! News reported today. “The $15.1 billion equity value of China’s commercialized Internet, which includes 13 portals, online game services and auction houses, lags the approximately $40 billion equity value of the same market in Japan, said […]
Ask Jeeves’s Japanese blog search
According to the Search Engine Journal blog, Ask Jeeves has released a new blog search engine for Japan. The launch coincides with the Google announcement earlier this week about the beta of its own blog search. Apparently there are 3.35 million Japanese blogs as of March 2005. Being a site about different languages and countries, […]