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. A new analysis says Google Image Search traffic is down 63 percent on...
Google's new Asia-Pacific chief, Karim Temsamani discusses growth opportunities, challenges, monetizing mobile growth, Google+, and China. A newGoogle Places for Business interface rolls out. Google Places for Business gets a new interface with...
If YouTube were a country, it would be the third largest in the world after China and India. Google hit the billion unique visitors mark in June 2011. Gunnard Johnson, Google's Advertising Research Director, posted a related story on the AdWords...
China is forecast to surpass Japan as the world’s second largest B2C ecommerce market valued at $181 billion (U.S.this year, according to eMarketer. This is not the first time the ecommerce giant made its foray into the search business in China.
Google's New Approach to China: A Closer Look at the Attack Heard 'Round the Web The publication marks the latest clash between China and Google. China hits Google with total block on its services (V3)
China, Japan, and India were the biggest offenders. Google's commitment to reducing "bad ads" isn't a new resolution for 2013. Once again, the Google AdWords team has reported on its continued efforts to eliminate bad AdWords ads.
China, the US, and the UK were found to be the top three countries for app downloads. China was reported to download 183 million apps. Following a year where Google and Apple drove unprecedented adoption of mobile devices," continued Farago.
Other than China and Russia, Facebook remains the top worldwide social media property. ZF: Google Translate is a great tool for learning how to say “preposterous thinking” in Spanish – but as you might expect, it will often ignore simple verb...
Baidu, the dominant search engine in China, has launched the Baidu Mobile Browser, which will go up against Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome. Going by the details released by Baidu on Friday ahead of its launch, the browser seems to take Google...
Seznam is not far behind Google within the Czech Republic and China still represents a huge stumbling block in Google's quest for complete world dominance. Baidu is the most popular search engine in China and is currently the fifth most visited...
China is now the world’s largest mobile market. It remains to be seen if the collaboration will extend into an offering for advertisers at this point but Baidu is certainly making strategic moves with key players to dominate China’s mobile search...
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. Go Beyond GoogleGoogle is by far the most popular search engine worldwide and...
For example, in China we need to optimize for Baidu, in Russia it would be Yandex. Optimizing for Google Isn’t Sufficient In the US, a third of all daily search queries happen outside of traditional core search engines like Google and Bing.
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...
Gordon Choi, head of web products and analytics at China’s travel portal Ctrip, agreed that Baidu is better than Google when it comes to localization in semantics, particularly for slang and colloquial expressions in China.
Baidu is China’s No.search engine, and in terms of second tier they are only second tier here in the U.S. A combination of their low cost CPC search based traffic and their cheap CPA based remarketing efforts can lead to a large amount of new...
Still, Greenlight says if Facebook launches its own search engine, it could potentially grab 22 percent of the global search market share and become the second most used search engine in every major market except for China, Japan, and Russia...
So while SEOs and webmasters this side of China are busy analyzing what might constitute over-optimization, what an [under|below|sub-par|sans|zero] optimized site might look like (ladies and gentlemen – your obligatory keyword stuffing joke!