Alibaba quietly unveiled Aliyun Search, a product developed by the Chinese ecommerce giant’s cloud unit recently, a move that could have huge implications for Baidu and e-commerce in the country. China is forecast to surpass Japan as the world’s...
China is now the world’s largest mobile market. Official stats released in February showed the country has more than 1 billion mobile subscribers. Because of the huge market potential, Chinese search giant Baidu has been making strategic moves to...
Google unveiled its Knowledge Graph recently, which it coined the "first step in the next generation of search.While it makes its way to my part of the world (Hong Kong), Baidu is claiming this is not new as the Chinese search giant has been...
January 23 is Chinese New Year, and heralds the Lunar New Year of the Water Dragon, a once in every 60 years occurrence. The dragon is perceived as a mystical and auspicious creature in Chinese cultures and this year is expected to bring prosperity...
Google, Ipsos and the Mobile Marketing Association conducted a large-scale study called Our Mobile Planet in 2011 by asking 30,000 people in 30 countries how they use their smartphones to gain insights about mobile users and their behavior.
Sina Weibo confirmed that it has launched a real time search engine that allows people to search from a wide range of categories – posts, users, events, groups, votes, and apps. While Baidu is the search giant in China, microblog Sina Weibo is fast...
Regardless of whether Yahoo continues to see itself as a search company, it seems to have a clear strategy for the next few years that is coined in a catchy three-word mantra: “Answers, not links. Shashi Seth, a Google and eBay veteran who joined...
While the global search alliance between Yahoo and Microsoft has completed in the U.S.and Canada, the transition is slowly making its way to Asia. Yahoo’s organic search results are scheduled to transition to Microsoft Bing for the India market, a...
Singapore recorded the highest share of visits to Google+ in key Asia Pacific markets, according to Experian Hitwise data. The report measured over an eight-week period from July to August 2011 comparing the share of visits by country under the...
A quick way to understand search in South Korea is to first examine what its top search engines Naver and Daum look like. Naver is Korea’s biggest search site and a typical homepage is filled with news, information, and online shopping.
Social networking may get all the rave but latest stats from comScore reveal Chinese Internet users actually spend the bulk of their time on portal sites (24.4 percent) followed by entertainment (9 percent) and search (6.2 percent) before social...
Facebook has been in the spotlight recently as news of the social network hiring PR firm Burson-Marsteller in an alleged smear campaign on Google’s privacy issues went awry. Hiring agencies to smear a competitor isn't new.
Alibaba Groups's Etao, a vertical shopping search engine in China, made headlines when it launched last October by using Microsoft's Bing as its search provider. The partnership created much speculation that Bing will grab a portion of the search...
by Adaline Lau Search Engine Optimization The Slippery Slope of SEO by Josh McCoy Recent algorithmic updates didn't just hurt the bad guys and clean up the SERPs. Many other sites felt the wrath of Google's tweaks.
Despite rumors that Yahoo is in advanced talks to exit its joint venture with Softbank Corp in Japan, the search company has rallied more than 105,000 Yahoo users worldwide to donate close to $6.55 million in response to the massive disaster that...
The Chinese government has launched a new search engine called Panguso that aims to not only become a top search engine in China but lead in the international market. The new search engine is a joint venture between the state-owned mobile operator...
China has the largest Internet population in the world at 420 million and 99 percent of them use Baidu, according to Robin Li, CEO of China's largest search engine. Baidu's search market share continues to rise -- up from 73 percent to 75.5 percent...
Search Engine Watch is glad to welcome Adaline Lau as a regular contributor for 2011. The study aimed to ascertain search behavior in 11 markets: China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand.
Mobile Marketing with Adaline Lau. Today, I'll give you some recommendations for your cross training workouts at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. As Manoj Jasra of Web Analytics World says, "There is no doubt that Connected Marketing Week is...
These are the facts as presented by editor Adaline Lau from ClickZ's new Asia desk in Hong Kong. Up to 43 percent of the world's online population will reside in Asia by according to projections from Forrester Research.
