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. If Alibaba takes Yahoo’s search algorithm and...
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...
It's pretty much essential to have a Chinese top-level domain. Many people are becoming increasingly resistant to traditional "outbound" marketing techniques. Consumers are no longer passive recipients of direct marketing messages (if they ever were).
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...
They now offer support in 35 countries, with localized platforms and IP-based tracking, as well as four versions of the UI: English, Spanish, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese. Global SEO software company GinzaMetrics recently announced conversion...
According to Youku’s PR Jean Shao, Soku is based on the video sharing site’s understanding of Chinese video viewer’s usage habits and not simply by traditional keyword relevance. Social networking may get all the rave but latest stats from comScore...
If you wondered what languages are on this list they are Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian...
Chinese Search Giant Baidu Launches Groupon-like Site - PCWorld SearchIgnite have released research that also suggests that Cyber Monday, the day that online shopping is meant to explode when compared to traditional footfall traffic, could become a...
FOR A WESTERNER, what is most striking is how different Chinese Internet culture is from our own. Chinese go to B.B.S.s to find broad-based communities and exchange information about everything from politics to romance.
Yet Chinese speakers use a traditional keyboard to input all of these characters into computers and therefore into search engines. Now consider the Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese languages with something over 40,000 recognized characters, of which...
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...
Virtual gaming was a trending topic at the Social Media World Forum (SMWF) in London two months ago and some amazing figures were released then: the virtual gaming is a growth market, with the U.S.representing a mere 1/5th of the size of the...
Religious or other national celebration holidays vary as well, with the Chinese typically closing for a week in February for the Chinese New Year and a week in October for National Day. In Japan and Korea, the traditional school year goes from...
The Art of War by Sun Tzu isn't about Chinese pottery and The Art of SEO by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin and Jessie Stricchiola isn't a paint-by-numbers kit. He said people are using more social elements and direct methods of getting...
Fortunately, Baidu isn't indexing all of them, just simplified and traditional Chinese. The second week of October marks not only the first week back to work for our Chinese friends after a weeklong holiday, but also the time earmarked by Baidu to...
For example, more than 20 character combinations can be used for "anti virus" in Mandarin Chinese, with one or two being the most popular by searchers. Most traditional SEO best practices still apply for international site development.
They are: Bulgarian, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US, . JasonTabeling Measuring Success -- How Deep Do You Go? SEW EXPERTS: PROFITABLE PPC How do you define success of your search...
They are: Bulgarian, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US, Australian and UK), Estonia, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean...
Overwhelming number of Chinese attempting to learn English don't have enough English friends trying to learn Chinese. Key wins: Advertising brand recall is higher in Hulu than on traditional TV networks as a result McDonald's, BestBuy, HP, ALPO...
Chinese Internet Portal Sina Buys Focus Media for $1 Billion Posted by Nathania Johnson Dec 23, 2008 Chinese internet portal Sina.com, has announced plans to buy parts of Focus Media for $1 billion, according to the New York Times.
