Chinese Internet giant Qihoo 360′s three-fold plan to challenge Tencent and Baidu [Interview] – The Next WebBaidu challenger Qihoo has captured 10 percent of the search market share in China, aiming for 40 percent by 2015.
Chinese Google’ Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley – WiredBaidu's new lab is researching "deep learning", described as "an emerging computer science field that seeks to mimic the human brain with hardware and software") not too...
Google has stopped warning Chinese Internet users that some of the words they might search for could see them kicked off the Internet. The Chinese government employs what is called the Great Firewall of China, and controls its citizens' use of the...
With the Internet itself not expected to reach a majority of China's vast population until 2015, Qzone may even be able to overhaul Facebook's active user figures without having to expand very much outside Chinese borders.
Just a little background for you, Qihoo 360 Technology Co.is a Chinese security software company that created a very popular browser in China with almost 300 million users, falling just second behind Internet Explorer.
Compare this to Spanish (807 percent), Chinese (1,479 percent) or Arabic (a massive increase of more than 2,500 percent). For a long time now English has served as the lingua franca, or common language, of the Internet.
It's pretty much essential to have a Chinese top-level domain. The accessibility and global nature of the Internet opens up a host of opportunities to help you get found by whole new markets, but there are a number of issues when it comes to...
To open a Baidu PPC account, for example, you will need a local presence with a Chinese domain website and a valid business certificate issued by the Chinese government. The growth in online use of languages such as Chinese and Arabic far outstrips...
Unfortunately, most social media sites and other popular sites exclude Baidu’s spiders due to the Chinese internet censorship. Their largest Chinese search engine, Baidu, has more than 407 million users, with around 78 percent share of the total...
Google had launched its search engine in China in 2006 and had censored search results for four years to comply with the government's demands, but after the firm was the subject of a major hacking attack, the company decided to take a stance...
Via this page, you'll see Google's logo and search box in Chinese floating on the surface of water above some sharks and nasty looking fish. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project was a self-installed, ad-supported online service that...
It's very surprising there isn't already an app that does this in a third-party Chinese market. The issue revolves around a permissions loophole that grants third-party app developers the ability to copy users photos to a remote server without...
Baidu doesn’t do this and a site must both have a Chinese domain name (com.cn or .cn) and be hosted on a server physically located within the country. This means a Russian domain isn’t as crucial as a Chinese one, but investing in ccTLDs can have...
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior (Wall Street Journal) video) - Twin Baby Boys Have A Conversation! Golden-Voiced Homeless Man Captivates Internet (Yahoo) Facebook’s Most Shared Articles on Facebook 2011 post lists which articles were shared most...
Despite a contentious relationship, Google recently received their Internet Content Provider permit from the Chinese government. Google launched their Chinese site back in 2005, but things didn't stay smooth for long.
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. Will this present more opportunity for other analytics firms to...
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. Almost 60 percent of visits go to Facebook and YouTube while 40 percent of visits went to local...
The Chinese Internet market has grown by double-digit percentages over the past five years and is expected to reach over half a billion users by the end of this calendar year. Baidu has announced an agreement with Microsoft for powering searches on...
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...
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...
