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Baidu Launched Software Search

September 2, 2010
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Baidu has recently launched another vertical search engine for Chinese softwares. Baidu Software Search indexes both desktop softwares and mobile applications.

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Baidu is testing PPC sitelinks extension with Xijing

August 27, 2010
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Baidu newly developed a PPC product called Xijing which is still in beta and similar to Google sitelinks extension. Xijing displays on the left side of the search result page above the other SERPs. Different from “Baidu Promotion”, “Baidu Sponsor Link” and “Right Side Ads”, Xijing presents more information.

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China’s Q2 Search Market Exceeds 2.6 Billion Yuan

July 26, 2010
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According to a report released by iResearch last week, China search engine market Q2 sales increased to 2.64 billion yuan (US$389m). Baidu’s market share increased by 3% to 70.8%. Search queries on Baidu also increased by 2.1% to 78.2% while search queries on Google dropped by 2.3% to 14.4%. In China, the second quarter is [...]

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Top China Internet Properties by Unique Visitors in May 2010

July 16, 2010
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In a recent report released by comScore, in terms of engagement among the top 20 most-visited properties in Asia Pacific, Tencent ranked as the most-engaging property with visitors averaging 6.5 hours on the site during the month, consuming 716 pages of content and visiting the property an average of 39 times.

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Baidu Added Handwriting Input for Search

June 21, 2010
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Baidu launched handwriting input on Baidu search not long ago this month. Searchers can use mouse to “hand write” search queries. The technology is obviously provided by Hanwang, a company specializing in handwriting recognition technology.

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Baidu Launched API Platform for Baidu Zhidao

June 2, 2010
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Baidu Zhidao, similar to Yahoo Answers, launched API platform. There are so far nine partners including abang.com (about.com in China) who have implemented Baidu Zhidao API. Users can ask and answer questions across different websites directly or indirectly via its powerful APIs.

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China Online Advertising Summary in Q1 2010

May 25, 2010

China’s Q1 online advertising spend in 2010 showed strong growth, with an increase of 85.4% to 6.36 billion yuan (USD 931 million) compared to Q1 spend in 2009. Baidu leads China’s online advertising market in quarter one in 2010 with total sales of 1.293 billion yuan. The next five are: Taobao: 590m yuan Google China: [...]

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Baidu Employee Cheers as Baidu Shares Rise on Google’s Likely Withrawal

March 16, 2010

Baidu shares jumped on Monday as it appeared increasingly likely that Google  will shutter its Chinese-language search engine. Financial Times seems pretty sure about it, Google  has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the [...]

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Baidu to Launch Video Portal QiYi.com in March

February 24, 2010

Baidu is to launch its HD video portal site QiYi.com in March. It announced its ambition in HD video in early January this year and hired former 12580 COO Gong Yu to be its CEO. QiYi.com aims to provide FREE and legal high definition video to Internet netizens and try to duplicate Hulu’s business model [...]

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Baidu Map Integrates Real Time Search

January 28, 2010

Baidu Map has launched a very interesting section to show real time search results on the map. Called “Post Bar Map”, it’s hosted on say.map.baidu.com, latest posts from i Post Bar (Baidu’s twitter like product) related to the search keyword will keep popping up on different locations of the map (user locations).

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Baidu to Launch AdWords Editor like PPC Editor Next Tuesday

January 19, 2010

Baidu is going to launch its paid search desktop editor on Jan 26, 2010. Its official name for the editor is “Baidu Promote Assistant“. The Baidu PPC Editor looks a lot like the Google AdWords Editor including the following features: Multiple accounts management Quick navigations with filter and advanced search abilities Mass create, edit, and [...]

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Baidu Added Two More Links on Homepage

January 19, 2010

Yesterday evening, Baidu homepage was found updated with two more links. The new homepage has two links added, one link to “baidu map” above the search box and one link to “baidu baike (wikipedia)” below the search box: Are more links coming to the homepage? What if Google does pull out of China?

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Baidu Hacked by Iranian Cyber Army?

January 12, 2010

Around 7:20 this morning, many posts at webmaster forums reported that Baidu.com and its subdomains could not be accessed. It’s already working when this post is being published.

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Baidu Testing New Search Interface?

January 8, 2010

An article at cnBeta.com earlier this week shared (link broken) a screen capture of a new Baidu search interface, which is similar to Google’s: Baidu could be testing this new UI among a small group of searchers as no one else yet has reported similar UI.

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Baidu Raises $60m to Expand into Online Video

January 5, 2010

According to Tencent Tech, someone from Baidu confirmed yesterday that Baidu will set up a new business through the investment holding company to expand into the Internet video space; the ex-CEO of 12580 Mr Gong Yu will be the CEO of the new company. The new company has received 60 million U.S. dollars from U.S. [...]

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