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...
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. The country already has the highest number of...
If you’re marketing to Japanese, then put a Japanese man in the picture not a Korean or Chinese guy. You think Skype sucks, try being a Chinese searcher! There are entire articles written on the millions of reasons translators miss over half of the...
Google has stopped warning Chinese Internet users that some of the words they might search for could see them kicked off the Internet. The firm ceased issuing the warnings in early December, according to a report from Chinese censorship monitoring...
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.
I really like an analogy from Greg Boser, who said that it's like a Chinese food court - you just ending taking bits of each without worrying where they come from, and it probably doesn't work very well together!
Compare this to Spanish (807 percent), Chinese (1,479 percent) or Arabic (a massive increase of more than 2,500 percent). The Internet is a constantly shifting battleground, however, and the way people search for information has been undergoing a...
The Chinese search giant is often considered crucial by businesses attempting to break into that vast emerging market. It's worth bearing in mind however that you'll need a local presence with a Chinese domain website and a valid business...
Chinese people typically use search engines to research. It's open to non-Chinese people so anyone can do it. Unfortunately, the requirements are much stiffer, only a Chinese company can run a store in Tmall but there is a way around this utilizing...
Because of the huge market potential, Chinese search giant Baidu has been making strategic moves to gain market share in this space. Chinese publisher Sina also owns the country’s leading microblogging service – Weibo.
It's pretty much essential to have a Chinese top-level domain. Many people are becoming increasingly resistant to traditional "outbound" marketing techniques. Inbound marketing works by providing quality content that people actually want to access...
If you wanted to promote a local Chinese food delivery place that had a delivery radius of 5 miles, you wouldn't be dropping menus at a neighborhood 20 miles away would you? I've met very few people who don't enjoy being asked their opinion.
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...
Baidu has a keyword tool that only PPC advertisers can access, but they also offer an open trends and keyword tool called Baidu Index and there's a good explanation of it in English, and a list of other Chinese tools on the ChineseSEOShifu blog.
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. Now, you know that millions of people are using mobile devices every day, but did you know that dozens are...
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. The Lantern Festival is considered to be the Chinese version of Valentine’s Day.
Singaporeans follow closely behind at 28 percent, followed by Indians (25 percent), Chinese and Malaysians (24 percent) in the same segment. Google, Ipsos and the Mobile Marketing Association conducted a large-scale study called Our Mobile Planet...
As the platform is primarily in Chinese, your search results will be much richer when searching in the local language. Sina Weibo confirmed that it has launched a real time search engine that allows people to search from a wide range of categories...
Even though there are 1.3 billion speakers of Chinese and Spanish, English with 350 million speakers is still the most widely spoken language of business and international commerce. People, especially in non-English speaking countries, tend to be...
