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Baidu Mobile Search Can Now Find Nearby Restaurants for You

Baidu mobile search has launched “locating” feature for high-end smartphones including iPhones and android phones. If a user (with an iPhone or Android phone) walks on the street and wants a burger from McDonald’s, all she has to do is to take out her phone and open m.baidu.com to perform a search. The search results [...]

China Mobile Internet Market Update Q1 2011

According to the latest report from iResearch, China’s mobile internet market reached 6.44 billion yuan (USD 989 million) in Q1 2011, up 43.4% compared to Q1 2010. eMarketer predicts advertisers in China will spend $717.8 million on mobile in 2012.

Baidu Launched Software Search

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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.

Baidu Launched Baidu Mobile Apps

Baidu launched its mobile application client in public beta – “Zhangshang (or palm in English) Baidu” on Nov 25, 2009. It currently supports Symbian S60 V3/V5 and windows mobile 5/6.0/6.1 mobile OS. Mobile applications include Baidu search, Baidu Post Bar (provides users with a query-based searchable community to exchange views and share knowledge and experiences), [...]

Google to Launch Chinese Voice Search on Mobile

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, [...]