It expanded operations to the U.K.in 2009, and opened corporate offices in Shanghai and Singapore in January 2011, also partnering with Baidu, the Chinese-language search engine to deliver integrated reporting, management, and optimization of...
Unfortunately, there is a lot of Chinese red tape to get through and risk involved. If you have no Chinese business presence, make sure that information about your overseas company registration is available.
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. April Fools 2010: Google Real-Time Search Results Powered by Pigeons on Red Bull?
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...
With an index built around the Chinese language, those English searches typically end up often being littered with poor results. As most people already know, Google moved its search engine off of the mainland last year, primarily because it couldn...
Last week, executives from the Chinese search engine Baidu flew to the United States to meet with Facebook in their Silicon Valley offices. Google is making use of its virtual tour abilities in Maps to provide Oscar fans with a walk through of the...
And in addition to local search, Google is thinking globally with ambitions to tackle languages such as Mandarin Chinese. Due to the complexity of typed character sets in such languages (not to mention the size of the Chinese market), this is an...
Baidu requests Chinese business licenses, proof of funds, a large opening deposit, communicating in Chinese, etc. Now they do, but thanks to the "Great Firewall of China" and its already slow connection speed, the end result is a bad experience for...
The study is a follow-on to last year's survey of North American searchers, and is similar to the Chinese survey that I reported on in yesterday's SearchDay. Red Herring Jan 18 2006 12:46AM GMT The Keynote Customer Experience Rankings for Search...
Recently, Smarter.com, also in the shopping search space, announced plans to expand their presence in the Chinese marketplace. Word in this Red Herring report that Michael Yang and the shopping research/comparison shopping engine, Become.com has...
Taiwan Not Happy With Being A Chinese "Province" In Google Maps - Via SEO Book, Taiwan tells Google it is not a China province from Reuters has Taiwan asking Google to stop calling it "Taiwan, Province Of China" on Google Maps, as you can see here.
Music giants sue 'Chinese Google' over MP3 downloads. Red Herring Sep 15 2005 11:41PM GMT SEM 50 Stock Index Search Engine Watch Forums I was trying to come up with an index of 50 stocks to start tracking that: are the search engines themselves...
Google hovers as Baidu readies IPO from TheDeal.com covers how Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been spotted recently in China meeting with officials of the Chinese Baidu search engine. See also Google Offering Chinese University Search?
Watching Google Get Blocked In China - Chinese Blogger Slams Microsoft from Wired revisits the controversy over Microsoft filtering what can be posted on its blog service in China. Google could be reached, but cached pages were blocked, as was...
Translation is available for eight languages (French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Japanese, or Korean) utilizing the same technology available on Google's Language Tools page.
China's Google Block Sparks Media Group's Protest from InternetNews.com brings confirmation from Google that China is indeed blocking non-Chinese versions of its Google News service. This comes after Google omitted content from the Chinese language...
Yahoo Launches Chinese-Language Site. Red Hot Potential Look to the culture of salsa dancing, volcanic chili peppers and red hot Latin music. That's right, Spanish speaking Internet users. Search en Espanol.
For example, within the food and dining category, you can choose to display all restaurants, or limit the display to cuisine type, such as Chinese, Indian, Mexican, and so on. Simply click the radio button next to your selection, and the map is...
Why We Want to Make the Internet Chinese'. A red [N” for a News Article and an orange [W” for Weblogs. Although Daypop crawls thousands of blogs, do you think the current popularity of blogs as a fad?
In fairness to the misguided Chinese authorities, they did apparently deem AltaVista subversive enough to block as well. Why not make it an advanced feature where, if the user chooses, the toolbar might display "spam" or a red bar in the PageRank...
