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. Google search manipulation starves some websites of traffic...
If YouTube were a country, it would be the third largest in the world after China and India. For the first time, an entire generation has grown up watching content on their own terms. They found that that the amount of time Gen C spends watching...
This is not the first time the ecommerce giant made its foray into the search business in China. 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.
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.
In China, most people are still on dial-up, plus have a massive government firewall to further increase slowdown. What I forget, is that most people hate international search marketing because there are a ton of challenges around it, which takes a...
Google had been offering users a warning if they searched for terms including "Freedom", and whenever someone in China had made such a move would tell them that their Internet connection could be interrupted.
One rather large gap in Facebook's global domination comes in the shape of China. The site is officially banned in China but local sites are massive within the market. An eMarketer report lists TencentQZone at the front of the pack in China, while...
In China, Baidu is the major player with more than three of every four searches conducted on their engine. For companies looking to market into China, understanding Baidu is crucial. In fact, in June of 1999 Netscape Search was updated and AOL...
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. There are potentially as many niche social networking sites as there are interests...
Other than China and Russia, Facebook remains the top worldwide social media property. At the same time, you want to maintain a consistent, overall brand presence through a global page. A couple of significant changes in social media and digital...
China's own data, meanwhile, suggests it has the largest mobile web community in the world, with almost half of users regularly searching on the go. The incidence of mobile search is also high in other developing markets, including the other...
Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, has announced the successful buyback of half of Yahoo’s assets in their company, in a deal worth approximately $7.6 billion. In May 2012, Alibaba Group and Yahoo announced their plan to reduce Yahoo’s stake over a...
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...
One question I get almost every week is, “why am I struggling so much with selling directly to consumers in China? There are many different answers to this question – from fully optimizing campaigns on Baidu, Google China and the many social...
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. Although SEO should be an important part of any online marketing strategy, it...
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...
Now with all the news of Facebook IPO and Mark Zuckerberg marrying his long time Chinese girlfriend, Priscilla Chan (is there a China connection here, if at all? Type in 87,989 euros (欧元) and Baidu’s first result, if the user is based in China, is...
