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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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Google.cn stopping to redirect to HK with a deceptive landing page

June 29, 2010
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As Google’s Internet Content Provider (ICP) license is up for renewal on June 30 in China, Google now has a new approach to handle Google.cn visitors.

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Nearly 9 out of 10 Internet Users in Hong Kong View Online Video

June 1, 2010
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comScore last week released its March 2010 rankings of the top video properties in Hong Kong based on data from its comScore Video Metrix service. The report found that 88.5% of Hong Kong’s Internet population viewed video online in March, with visitors averaging more than 10 hours of video viewing per person during the month.

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Chinese Sites Among Top 100 Visited sites on the Web

May 31, 2010

Google recently released a list of 1000 most visited websites and these Chinese sites below are in top 100 in April 2010:

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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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Explore Shanghai World Expo on Google

May 5, 2010

Google Maps aggregated Shanghai Expo data and you can explore different pavilions, activities (not available in English version), and World Expo history. Check out Expo on Google in Chinese or English.

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Google Dropped its Chinese Name GuGe

April 5, 2010

Google China’s homepage changed its name to “Google China” on April 3, 2010. Previously, Google had a Chinese name “Gu Ge” (as shown in the image above), announced in April 2006.

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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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Google.cn Has Already Stopped Censoring Search Results

January 13, 2010

Google this morning issued a statement regarding a “big decision” about Google China operation, We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine [...]

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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 Promotes Google Translate

January 4, 2010

Baidu has a page life.baidu.com showing different types of search services such as hotel search, stock info, mobile phone info, calendar search… One of the tool shown on the page is translation where Baidu simply embeds Google Translate box. Is Baidu too generous to its competitor? Or, is it desperate for a translator tool?

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Top 10 Keywords in China 2009: Baidu V.S. Google

December 28, 2009

Baidu recently launched its popular searches list for year 2009; half of its top 10 keywords also appeared in Google China’s Top 10 keywords. The five keywords are: Kaixin001 qq Youku Xiaonei taobao The other five keywords in Baidu’s top search 2009 list are: NBA (game) DNF novel xunlei (download manager and bittorrent client) 51mole.com [...]

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Baidu is the most popular keyword on Google China

December 10, 2009

Let’s take a look at Google Zeitgeist 2009 for China. The Most Popular Baidu uusee Taobao Kaixin001 YouKu xiaonei (now “renren”) qq 163 tudou Sina The Most Asked “What is…” wifi erp twitter 3g facebook skype vpn sushi happiness sap You can find the complete list at Google Zeitgeist (Chinese).

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Google China Music Integrated Windows Live, Yahoo, and RenRen IDs

November 11, 2009

From today on, Chinese netizens can manage their music playlists on Google Music Player with Windows Live ID, Yahoo ID, or Renren ID. Google China Music has added share feature which enables users to share their instantly updated playlists with their friends. Currently, Chinese netizens can download high quality legal songs and there are over [...]

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Baidu Q3 Earning Up 42% & Switching to Phoenix Nest on Dec 1

October 27, 2009

Baidu’s third-quarter earnings jumped 42% (Q3 revenue about USD 187.3 million; net profit about USD 72.2 million) as it continued to gain traction with its new Phoenix Nest online-marketing system. However, Baidu’s updated its revenue projection for Q4 to $180 million, well below the $205 million expected by Wall Street. Q4 projection is not a [...]

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