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 Reboots Its Cloud-based Mobile OS Strategy – AlizilaCompany outlines new plans seven months after Google blocked a smartphone featuring Alibaba's OS software in China. Percent of Time Spent Online is on Social Networking – Experian...
China, where Facebook remains officially banned, represents one obvious stumbling block in Facebook's quest for complete worldwide domination, while VKontakte and Odnoklassniki remain popular in Russia.
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 had been offering users a warning if they searched for terms including "Freedom", and whenever...
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.
Many commentators have predicted that mobile search will overtake desktop by 2015 and in some countries, including China and India, this is already the case. Mobile Internet is on the rise all over the world.
Wired posted a story yesterday about how a small riot following the World Series win for the San Francisco Giants sparked what, in China, would be known as a 'human flesh search' for one of the rioters.
Tencent's Qzone claims to have almost half a billion members itself in China – an obvious stumbling block in Facebook's quest for complete worldwide dominance. Swedish social media entrepreneur Erik Wachtmeister recently announced the launch of a...
The incidence of mobile search is also high in other developing markets, including the other emerging economic powerhouses of the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and the CIVETS grouping (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, and...
Japan leads the region with 147 searches per searcher, but China – still very much a developing market in this regard – drags down the regional average with just 68 searches per searcher. Social media may get most of the news clippings lately, but...
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 banned), Qzone rules the roost while VK (formerly Vkontakte) has...
In Russia, for example, Yandex has the greatest market share while Baidu – the fifth most visited site in the world according to Alexa – is massively important in China. A recent study conducted across the European Union found that more than half...
This address isn’t accessible outside of China due to a ISP network filter (not government related), which is in the process of being removed. In the meantime, for people interested in testing this connection from outside China, he recommended...
It’s quite simple - Harbour bought article spinning services from a company in China. In analyzing Harbour’s own link building strategies I was reminded of the time Eric Schmidt famously called the internet "a cesspool".
Baidu is China’s No.search engine, and in terms of second tier they are only second tier here in the U.S. This includes tool bar searches, Internet yellow pages (IYPs), parked domains and many other networks.
With more than 500 million Internet users, China is by far the world’s largest online market. If you don't have a license to operate in China and do not require one (a hotel in the USA as an example), then you need to do the same as a Chinese...
Remember the power of Yandex and Badiu in Russia and China, with 63 and 78 percent market share respectively. Resources For Every Internet Marketer's Toolkit Here are some really useful tools, some of which you will use every day, if you aren't...
For example, due to privacy and political issues some regions like China, Google’s own hosted servers have been moved out of the country, leading to slower and more inaccurate results (Chapter 3, page 45) which may impact marketing efforts there...
In China there was also “Super Manager” for ranking monitoring (unfortunately uncertain about the link reference on this one). Here are 78 Resources For Every Internet Marketer's Toolkit. Open Link Data Sources: Ahrefs, Blekko (use the /seo...
Baidu is the most commonly used search engine in China, for example, while Yandex is the market leader in Russia. Whereas the English-speaking Internet is bursting at the seams with content, there’s plenty of multilingual web space up for grabs...
