Google hit by another blow in China
It has not been a good year for Google in China, and the search engine has suffered another blow this week when China’s most popular portal Sina stopped using Google’s search box on its website. Sina, which is China’s third most popular website and has almost 1 billion page views daily has stated that its […]
Alibaba leaps over Google to second place in China
Alibaba has leapt ahead of Google in terms of the share of online advertising revenue it earns in China – its home market. According to Analysys International, Alibaba’s Taoboa keyword advertising and the further development of its interactive advertising offer in China are the root cause of this development – rather than Google’s failure. Baidu […]
Medallion Speaker Award Goes East At #ISSLON
The sixth International Search Summit London has been and gone. And it was a very international event, with over half of the speakers coming from non-English speaking countries, and only 3 speakers from the UK. As is now customary at International Search Summit events, the delegates voted at the end of the day for their […]
Baidu To Join Yandex And Ayna At International Search Summit London
China’s leading search engine Baidu will be joining Russian market leader Yandex and Middle Eastern search engine Ayna at the International Search Summit London on 28th October. Senior Product Manager for Baidu, Min Cui, will be speaking on the Chinese search market and giving delegates insights into how marketers can use Baidu to reach a […]
China Mobile, Xinhua to develop new search engine
China Mobile, the world’s biggest cellphone carrier and Xinhua, China’s official state run news agency, signed an agreement to establish a new Internet search engine and international media company, “Search Engine New Media International Communications Co.” It was not immediately clear whether this new venture would cover mobile search only or develop a traditional search […]
Baidu – Chinese Search Engine or International Player?
In a Wall Street Journal interview, Baidu CEO Robin Li stated that international expansion will be a key revenue driver for the Chinese search engine in the coming years. Baidu launched a Japanese version of its site in 2008 and according to Li, expects to see international markets providing a significant amount of their revenue […]
George Soros Invests in Chinese Alibaba.com
The Financial Times reports today that David Wei, Chief Executive of Alibaba.com, has revealed that George Soros has become one of the organisation’s largest shareholders. Mr. Wei also told the FT that Alibaba intends to buy out Yahoo’s stake in the Alibaba parent company. The Financial Times makes the common mistake of describing Alibaba.com as […]
GoDaddy, Network Solutions join the China bailout
GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registration company, stopped registering websites in China on Wednesday after it received demands for additional information about its existing customers. This was revealed in Congressional hearings focusing on Google’s decision to stop censoring search results. Network Solutions stopped registering the “.cn” domain names in December last year in response […]
China without Google: Time to optimise for Baidu
Chinese search engine Baidu is the undisputed market leader when it comes to search in China – and following Google’s closure of its Chinese website, its market share is likely to rise. Organisations attempting to reach the 380 million Chinese internet users should already be targeting Baidu but it is now even more important to […]
Google China Exit: Global Search Empire on the Wane?
Google’s announcement that it is re-directing Chinese users to uncensored Chinese-language results at Google Hong Kong is an historic turning point when one ’empire’ sees its apparently unassailable position as no longer certain. In China it is hugely important to maintain ‘face’ and not to embarass another party. Google’s move could either be a convenient […]