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.
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. Because of its strong market share, advertisers have...
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.
The firm's Q3 earnings for 2012 saw the firm report an income of $3.16 billion, although a $2.8 billion chunk of that came from the company's recent sale of its stake in Chinese firm Alibaba. However, Mayer also noted that Yahoo's search share is...
Chinese IT expert Wu Hongsheng says that 360 Search has already surpassed Google in terms of market share in China – but it’s far too early to have any proof of that. It is expected that the launch of 360 will radically alter the existing structure...
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...
Because of the huge market potential, Chinese search giant Baidu has been making strategic moves to gain market share in this space. While Baidu generally do not acknowledge such changes, the Chinese search giant’s engineer from the anti-spam team...
Three employees of Chinese search engine Baidu have been arrested for taking bribes to delete postings. A group of Chinese residents in New York sued the search company for conspiring to censor pro-democratic content.
Microsoft clearly has designed on Google's market, though, with the firm announcing a deal with Chinese search company Baidu earlier this month, a move that could help its Bing engine gain a far larger market share.
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...
Note I’m in no position to ‘name’ companies that are doing this, but if you pay attention to the Chinese market, you will see many," he opined. It also suggests related music videos from Lady Gaga including the ability to share on Chinese social...
Yahoo has agreed to sell its half of its stake in Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba back to the company in a deal worth $7.1 billion. Yahoo Search Market Share Losing Streak Extends to 8 Months The deal also includes provision for a share buy-back...
Their largest Chinese search engine, Baidu, has more than 407 million users, with around 78 percent share of the total Chinese search users. All tools provided by Baidu, for both paid and organic search, are in Chinese.
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.
Lee, the author of a book about Chinese restaurants, on Google+. In the aftermath of the announcement the industry has been (understandably) primarily focused on the antitrust implications of Google's promoting their social network in the search...
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. CEO Seth Besmertnik tells us they are adding two new Searchlight views...
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...
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. Naver commands more than 70 percent market share in South Korea...
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...
As most people already know, Google moved its search engine off of the mainland last year, primarily because it couldn’t agree to the Chinese government’s policy of censorship. With an index built around the Chinese language, those English searches...
