As Soku is catered to Chinese users, its search results are more sensitive to Pinyin input (a way of transcribing Chinese characters into Roman alphabets) than for native English users. According to Youku’s PR Jean Shao, Soku is based on the video...
Yet Chinese speakers use a traditional keyboard to input all of these characters into computers and therefore into search engines. Now consider the Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese languages with something over 40,000 recognized characters, of which...
However, to make things difficult, there are multiple dialects in mainland China and multiple characters for the same keyword to consider. Fortunately, Baidu isn't indexing all of them, just simplified and traditional Chinese.
It's one thing to work with a different language that is somewhat similar using characters that are almost the same. For example, more than 20 character combinations can be used for "anti virus" in Mandarin Chinese, with one or two being the most...
An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: Web form, text message, or instant message. Overwhelming number of Chinese attempting to learn English don't have enough English friends trying to learn Chinese.
It's simply a bunch of characters I typed at random after the amazon.com domain, in order to reach a dynamically-generated error page. In fairness to the misguided Chinese authorities, they did apparently deem AltaVista subversive enough to block...
