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. Despite up-and-coming search players such as Qihoo...
For the most part, the Chinese love Baidu as they love Taobao for shopping. Fei Chang Dao, a blog which chronicle’s free speech in mainland China had found several discrepancies between the results Baidu provides and the results Qihoo provides.
Chinese search giant Baidu has launched a mobile web browser to cash in on Chinese smartphone users. Baidu has very high hopes for its web browser and said it wants the browser on 80 percent of Chinese Android handsets by the end of the year.
It's worth bearing in mind however that you'll need a local presence with a Chinese domain website and a valid business certificate issued by the Chinese government in order to open a Baidu PPC account.
There are many different answers to this question – from fully optimizing campaigns on Baidu, Google China and the many social networks in China – but one that always catches people off guard is, “Taobao.
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...
Baidu is the market leader in China for example, and effective SEO varies between Baidu and Google in several important ways: Baidu places more importance on the quantity of inbound links, where Google focuses on the quality.
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. In Russia, for example, Yandex has the greatest market share while Baidu – the...
With Google pushing mobile in Mainland China, financial analysts think Baidu has mimicked Google’s strategy to focus on cloud computing and mobile software in relation to the Chinese engine’s recent smartphone launch.
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.
In Asian markets, Baidu commands as much as 80 percent of the market and only in Japan has Google teamed up to provide a search engine presence. Baidu also puts a significant amount of paid search ads in the left-hand side.
Baidu, China’s top search engine, has created a logo on its homepage to celebrate the year of the dragon. Another Chinese search engine, Sogou.com, has created an animated video depicting the Lunar New Year celebrations with the firecracker going off.
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. In China, for example, Baidu is the most popular, with a reported 75.5 percent market share...
While Baidu is the search giant in China, microblog Sina Weibo is fast becoming the social darling of brand advertisers targeting the country. From Sina Weibo’s search engine, it doesn’t look like the company is offering paid advertising on the...
You might even find yourself ranking in English in a foreign language version of Google however, there are search engines such as Baidu that don’t index English sites into its search engine (instead, Baidu partners with Bing China to provide...
Dominant Chinese search engine Baidu quietly launched more of its international efforts with the help of a Singapore-based partner and their new website – Baidu International – and a Twitter account to start following people in the search industry.
Google comes in as a distant second to Baidu, China's leading search engine. Google wouldn't comment beyond confirming that the license has been renewed in China, a search market Baidu dominates. In addition to self-censorship requirements from the...
Naver commands more than 70 percent market share in South Korea, making it the fifth most used search engine in the world, following Google, Yahoo, Baidu, and Bing. North Asia may be one region where Google doesn’t always dominate due to other...
This created a near monopoly for Baidu, China’s largest search engine. Initially I thought I’d see a resurrection of Yahoo China taking up Google’s spot, but with Baidu and Bing, I’m excited to see a new level of cooperation with two of the world’s...
