China: Mobile Phones Now The Most Common Gateway To The Internet
Mobile Internet usage has overtaken desktop for the first time in the world’s largest internet market. A report from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) confirms that there are now 538 million Chinese users accessing the web, with over 70% of those users doing so via mobile devices. Many of the new internet users […]
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 […]
Internet More Popular Than Television In The Middle East
The Middle East is one of the major growth regions for the internet, and a study released this week revealed that web users in the region spend more time online than many of their Western counterparts. Here, Omar Khaled, Partner Relations Manager for Arabic search engine Ayna, talks about how search is evolving in the […]