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The last time I checked Technorati reported about 55 million registered blogs. Some of them, of course, are written by Chinese.

The Internet Society of China reported that by August of this year the Chinese blog population alone had reached ...

Just two weeks after Baidu Hi launched its public beta test, Baidu announced on yesterday that over 1 million users has tried Baidu Hi. An IM service from Baidu will definitely attracts users’ attention, similar to Google’s GTalk. The real challenge is how many percentage of registered users will remain active six month later.

The Chinese National Tourism Administration has reported continuous and rapid growth of the number of travelers coming to China in 2006.

ESWN takes a critical look at why the headline "750,000 a year killed by Chinese pollution" is not a fair or informed one. His analysis raises the question of whether or not that number is actually not too bad.

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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?

Any savvy marketer, blogger or SEO provider needs to understand the mechanics of regional search. For starters...

So much for Baidu getting preferential treatment as I mentioned before as Universal, SonyBMG, and Warner are now suing Baidu for violating copyright laws.

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).

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.