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...
The Chinese government employs what is called the Great Firewall of China, and controls its citizens' use of the internet with a firm hand. Google has stopped warning Chinese Internet users that some of the words they might search for could see...
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.
Just a little background for you, Qihoo 360 Technology Co.is a Chinese security software company that created a very popular browser in China with almost 300 million users, falling just second behind Internet Explorer.
Compare this to Spanish (807 percent), Chinese (1,479 percent) or Arabic (a massive increase of more than 2,500 percent). The incidence of mobile search is also high in other developing markets, including the other emerging economic powerhouses of...
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. Baidu is the market leader in China for example, and effective SEO varies between Baidu and Google in several important ways: In China (where both Facebook and Twitter are officially...
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...
In order to be certain that your site is being listed in Baidu, it’s a great idea to host in China behind the Chinese firewall. Provided your site is linked to a site in China also provided your site is in Chinese, preferably Simplified 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.
Google had launched its search engine in China in 2006 and had censored search results for four years to comply with the government's demands, but after the firm was the subject of a major hacking attack, the company decided to take a stance...
Finally, for link research Harrington liked SEOmoz Open Site Explorer for international link research as well as Yandex Webmaster Tools, and Chinese “Master Ghost” Link Monitoring. In China there was also “Super Manager” for ranking monitoring...
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...
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. You might even find yourself ranking in English in a foreign...
Chinese has grown by 1,478 percent. For example, the links on my company’s “in other languages” page direct visitors to our other key foreign language subdomains by using their top performing keywords as the anchor text, for instance: Agence de...
In addition to self-censorship requirements from the Chinese government (which required Google to block gambling sites, pornography, and any content deemed critical of the communist government), China moved to block access to YouTube in 2009.
Dell is also becoming a more common brand name in China, with Dell's Chinese sales growing by 22 percent in the first quarter of this year. However, Chinese companies are starting to enter the scene, with the Alibaba Group – a Chinese internet...
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. Will this present more opportunity for other analytics firms to...
Whilst Google has come and gone in China, they still enjoy an 11% share of Chinese searches. The Chinese Internet market has grown by double-digit percentages over the past five years and is expected to reach over half a billion users by the end of...
