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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).

Google has released a Pinyin-based character-input method for Windows systems. It offers a number of special features … download the program from this page.

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).

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.

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)

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.

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!

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?

Police in Australia suspect that expensive construction equipment is being stolen and shipped to China. I think the link to the Olympics is questionable.