Google goes it alone in China

Google continues to lose ground to China's own home grown number one search engine, Baidu.com.

Still, Google Inc. has no plans on doing the eBay Inc. or Yahoo! Inc thing, playing second fiddle to a Chinese partner.

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Google Succumbs to Localization in China 40 weeks 6 days ago

It is rather interesting to see Google following the acts of Baidu in China as if Google is the Yahoo/MSN within the US. Google cannot seem to get out there in front and actually do anything new without either changing Google’s MO, copying Sohu, or just being late to the market (eg: Google had no Chinese name in 2005).

The rise of Baidu (that's Chinese for Google) 2 years 9 weeks ago

The story of how a once obscure search engine has come to be the most-visited site in China. This site supposedly trounces Google and Yahoo in the Middle Kingdom. The kicker, though, is that it mixes ads into your search results and lets the censors do what they please. Very interesting.

Baidu Hijacking Google Traffic In China 1 year 4 weeks ago

Anyone that tried to access Google, Yahoo and probably some other search engines the other day was likely scratching their heads as their browser got auto-directed to Baidu. Hacker prank or bad business ethics?

Cartoon: Baidu vs. Google 45 weeks 2 days ago

Lost Laowai author Steven sums up the differences between search giant Google and its Chinese thorn, Baidu using a parody on the Mac/PC commercials.

Baidu Seeks to Enter IM Market 38 weeks 1 day ago

Here’s one of the areas where Baidu is actually behind in its own market comparative to Google (unlike my previous post on how Google is so far behind in understanding China and in localizing the Chinese market).

How to Get Music on Baidu in English 34 weeks 5 days ago

Baidu is quite well known in China as being the place to get free mp3s by just searching for songs at mp3.baidu.com and then downloading the song from the respective website. Now, this can be done still in Google with some advanced search commands (eg: filetype:mp3 aerosmith), but what could be done for Baidu specifically?

China's 3 Minutes of Mourning Online Affects Google 25 weeks 4 days ago

There was a massive dip in Google search traffic during the three minute moment of silence on May 19 mourning the victims of the Sichuan Earthquake. This chart shows you exactly how much!

Google Maps Mania in China 2 years 19 weeks ago

Presentation of 2 google-maps mash-ups:
- "Streets and placenames for Google Maps in China"
- "Learn about Chinese Geography"
and some other links related to maps in China!

(warning for people in china: hosted by blogger)

Censored Google China Book Search Launches 1 year 37 weeks ago

Google launched a local Chinese book search. Interestingly enough, while this service doesn’t make its censorship explicit, it’s restricted to find less Chinese books than Google’s other localized book searches because it omits Chinese books published outside of China mainland – this is disclosed at the end of search results in italics, reading “These results only include works from Mainland China.”*