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China Search Engine Market Summary for 2011

Total revenue of China search engine market last year reached 18.78 billion yuan, up 11.7% from 2010. Baidu leads search engine market with a market share of 76.1% by revenue while Google’s down to 19.8%. Sogou and Soso expanded their market share to 2.3% and 1.4% respectively.

China’s Search Engine Market Update for Q3 2011

China web search requests amounted to 77.51 billion times in Q3 2011, up 6.1% from Q2 and 16.3% from Q3 2010 according to research company iResearch.

Google China Launched Daily Deal Aggregator “Shihui”

Google China launched a daily deal aggregation website in beta named “Shihui” which means economical and practical in Chinese. Users can browse or search daily deals in a specific city by site, product category, price and discount on Google Shihui.

Charts: China 2011 Q2 Search Engine Market Update

According to Enfodesk’s data, total revenue in China search engine market reached 4.32 billion yuan (about USD 668 million) in the second quarter of 2011, up 33.2% compared to the first quarter.   Google’s market share by revenue continued its down trend to 18.9% and Baidu’s up slightly to 75.9%.

Google China Released A Chrome Ext for Bilingual Google Suggest

Google China team released a chrome extension to provide bilingual search suggestions. After installation, Google Suggest will display two languages in two columns for each suggested search query.

The Impact of Collectivist Culture on the Chinese Link Graph

This is a guest post by Doug Pierce, the Co-Founder and Head of Research at Digital Due Diligence, a boutique Internet equity analysis firm. It’s a curious yet common practice at the bottom of Chinese websites. A selection of curated hyperlinks that go by many names – “friendly links”, “cooperative partners”, “enterprise promotion” – but [...]

China Search Market Update Q1 2011

According to iResearch, Q1 revenue of China’s search engine market reached 3.21 billion yuan (about USD 493 million), down 4% compared to the previous quarter. However, search represented 37.5% of total online advertising market, up from previous quarter’s 35.8%. Baidu’s search market share by revenue reached 74.4%, up 0.9% compared to Q4 2010. Google’s market [...]

Baidu More Dominant with 83.6% Search Query Market Share

Baidu’s market share by search queries in Q4 2010 increased by 6.5% to 83.6% compared to the same period in 2009, according to the latest report from iResearch. Unfortunately for Google, its search query market share dropped to 11.1%. Definitely not a good thing for China search market; we’d love to see some competitions in [...]

Google launched Chinese version of its merchant center service

Google Merchant Center, the place to upload your product data to Google and make it available to Google Product Search and other Google services, has just launched the Chinese version. Even if the merchant hasn’t uploaded any data to Google, users may still be able to find its products in product search which are crawled [...]

China’s Q3 Search Engine Market Exceeding 3 Billion Yuan

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iResearch published a search engine report estimating Q3 China search engine market totaled 3.13 billion yuan (or over US$470 million), up 16.3% compared to Q2 in 2010.

China’s Q2 Search Market Exceeds 2.6 Billion Yuan

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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 [...]

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

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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.

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

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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.

Chinese Sites Among Top 100 Visited sites on the Web

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

China Online Advertising Summary in Q1 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: [...]

Explore Shanghai World Expo on Google

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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