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Google to Launch Chinese Voice Search on Mobile

October 15, 2009

Google vice president for global mobile search, Vic Gundotra, for the first time in Beijing demoed the Chinese voice search service for mobile that will be launched in a few weeks. The service will be initially made available for Nokia S60 platform.
Chinese version of Google mobile search adopts the cloud computing and supports Mandarin, English, [...]

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Google Digital Library Suspected of Copyright Infringement in China

October 13, 2009

CCTV reported in its Morning News program that the Google China Digital Library is suspected for large-scale infringement of copyrighted Chinese books.
According to China Written Works Copyright Society, a total of 17,922 books from 570 authors, including works from government officials, have been scanned into Google China Digital Library without authorization.
Soruce: TechWeb

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China Search Engine Market Report 2009

September 24, 2009

CNNIC has released its latest search engine report showing that by the end of June 2009, the number of Chinese search engine users has reached 235 million with an increase of 59.49 million people, annual growth rate of 34%. The number will likely reach 260 million by the end of year 2009. Here is a [...]

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Google Search Dropped by Tencent

September 8, 2009

It seems Tencent doesn’t want to make the mistake Microsoft ever did by neglecting search; Chinese Internet company Tencent has confirmed that its search engine product Soso.com, which was previously powered by Google search technology, has started to use its self-developed search technology.
Source: China Tech News

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Baidu MP3 Homepage Updated

September 8, 2009

China’s Ministry of Culture (MoC), warned last week that it would strengthen checks and policing of online music content. MoC said that search engines can only provide search information for tracks from legitimate music companies. Today, Baidu launched their new homepage for MP3 searches:
The new MP3 homepage shows rich content of popular songs in different [...]

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Google China Chief Kaifu Lee Leaving Google

September 4, 2009

Google Vice President, Greater China president Kai-fu Lee, today will announce the formal resignation. Sina science and technology exclusively learned that Kai-fu Lee on the end of June had already made plans to leave; but, because Google China had to deal with a sudden urgent incident, Kai-fu Lee decided to postpone its departure.
Kaifu Lee will [...]

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Google China Ordered to End Foreign Site Access

June 20, 2009

via FT.com,
Beijing has ordered Google to stop users of its Chinese-language service accessing overseas websites in the biggest blow to the world’s leading search engine in China since it started operating there four years ago.
As I tried just now, I was still able to access overseas websites listed on Google.com search results.

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Google China Launched Product Search Beta

June 15, 2009

Google China has announced the beta launch of  products search, which covers hundreds of e-commerce websites including its competitor’s online C2C store youa.baidu.com. Google China products search interface is quite similar to that of Google Products search:

Not surprisingly, Taobao ranks high in most product specific searches. No doubt Google product search is helpful; yet it [...]

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Google Tops CIIRC’s Latest List of Porn WAP Sites

April 14, 2009

China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre (CIIRC) published the result of tenth batch of WAP sites with pornographic and/or vulgar content; these are top 5:

“Google WAP Network” (location: Beijing) “Image Search”, “web search” results
“Baidu WAP Network” (location: Beijing) “Image Search”, “web search” results
“Sina WAP Network” (location: Beijing) “Image Search”
“Sohu WAP Network” (location: Beijing) photos [...]

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Toocle Launched First B2B Top Search List

March 10, 2009

China’s B2B media platform Toocle launched the first B2B top search list last week. The site is in four languages, Chinese, English, Korean, and Japanese. However, the top search list so far is only in Chinese.
Toocle top search list is based on data from six search engines: Baidu, Google, Yahoo, Sogou (Sohu), Tencent SoSo, Netease [...]

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China Search Engine Report 2008 Advertisers and Users Behavior Study

March 7, 2009

China Search Engine Marketing Report 2008
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China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) in Beijing issued “2008 Chinese search engine market advertisers research report” and “2008 Chinese search engine user behavior study“. This is also a CNNIC published for four consecutive years in the field study report.
Report shows that 64.9% of [...]

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