In Asia Pacific, YouTube has presence in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. Because of the huge market potential, Chinese search giant Baidu has been making strategic moves to gain market share in this space.
Likewise, searching for [周] (Zhōu, another common surname that also means “week”) triggers an error message, so including this character in other searches—like [周杰伦] (Jay Chou, the Taiwanese pop star), [周星驰] (Stephen Chow, a popular comedian from...
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...
The Lantern Festival was celebrated on Google’s homepages with a special logo in Taiwan and Hong Kong today. The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the first month of China’s lunar year to mark the end of celebrations for the Chinese New Year.
In Asia, the Doodle is featured on Google sites in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Korea. January 23 is Chinese New Year, and heralds the Lunar New Year of the Water Dragon, a once in every 60 years occurrence.
Here’s a look at mobile search data for 10 of the Asia Pacific countries from the study: Australia, urban China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. This is followed by Hong Kong (55 percent), Australia...
You can also track the tweets by verified accounts, people you’re already following, pictures, and videos – right down to the location in Greater China from Guangdong to Hainan including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and overseas.
They instead re-directed users to the Hong Kong version of Google, which was uncensored. Despite a contentious relationship, Google recently received their Internet Content Provider permit from the Chinese government.
It is unclear how Yahoo’s algorithm transition will impact organic search results for Chinese speaking cities such as Hong Kong and Taiwan where Yahoo search continues to dominate. While the global search alliance between Yahoo and Microsoft has...
The lower rate of adoption in Hong Kong could be due to the more established presence and use of local Chinese sites in the social networking category. Hong Kong Hong Kong ranked the lowest in adopting Google+ compared with other countries at 90th...
While Google doesn't function in China due to censorship concerns and the fear that Google accounts may be abused to compromise the efforts of human rights activists, Chinese users who visit the Google site are still directed to the Hong Kong...
Each of the thumbnails links directly to the movie and these movies tend to be from North Asia such as Hong Kong, Korea, and Mainland China. Social networking may get all the rave but latest stats from comScore reveal Chinese Internet users...
While internet use in China continues to grow, Mainland China and its surrounding areas (specifically Taiwan and Hong Kong – collectively known as Greater China) have been slow to pick up social networking.
Early this month, Omnicom Group’s PR firm Fleishman-Hillard unveiled its specialist unit, BlueCurrent in Hong Kong that offers search and social media strategies, including crisis management, reputation monitoring and influencer marketing.
It's a well known and established fact that Google's withdrawal from having a direct presence in China -- or more correctly PRC -- and moving to Hong Kong has had a detrimental effect on the company's share of the market.
There is also speculation that Google China may fail its next ICP annual inspection -- to get its license renewed in 2010, Google stopped redirecting China queries to Google Hong Kong. Last week, Chinese portal Sina announced that it was dropping...
If Google moved from mainland China to Hong Kong last year, why is this coming out now? As of this week, according to a Wall Street Journal report, Sina is in the process of dropping Google in favor of their own search service, thereby diminishing...
Yahoo continues to dominate in the Chinese language speaking cities of Taiwan and Hong Kong with 91 percent and 88 percent reach rate respectively, according to comScore January 2011 statistics. Erin Carlson, senior director of Yahoo for Good...
This Doodle is only appearing in selected countries (Australia, Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Israel, Romania, Russia, and Taiwan). Chinese New Year 2011: Google's Year of the Rabbit Doodle Will Eisner was a highly praised graphic artist and comic writer.
Famous Tang Dynasty romantic poet Li Bai, born on Feb.is the subject of a Doodle on Google Hong Kong today: Bai, also known as Li Po, was well-known for his drinking -- as well as celebrating that topic in his poetry.
