Hong Kong to enact spam laws
The Direct Marketing News ran an interesting story that the Telecommunications Authority was getting ready to enact spam laws.
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China's Sohu Commits to Emphasize Search
Sohu seems to have adopted the Avis moto, “We try harder.” And, taking the global Google out of the mix, like the Avis, Sohu is China’s number two search engine. The Chinese government has tightened restrictions on internet companies, and … Read More
China Requires Blog and Site Registration
The freedom of the web is limited by the country it is connected to these days. As the article from Reporters Without Borders tells us China now requires every blogger and webmaster to register their online presence. China appears to … Read More
Google's desktop tool goes multilingual
The Google blog has announced that the desktop search tool is now available in a wider range of languages comprising of French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese and Korean. Google Blog: Speaking of search
Big Clique African-American search engine launches in 17 languages
Mr. Olu, the Will Smith of search engines, has created a new search engine for the world – Big Clique – in fact covering 17 languages from day one an amazingly ambitious undertaking! Big Clique claims to offer ‘Just search…’ … Read More
China has 98.8 million Internet users – ready for the invasion of the US majors.
China is a large country. So even a small percentage of web users produces a big number – 98.8 million users according to an official in the Ministry of Information. Not surprising then that the leading US web-based businesses are … Read More
