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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).

You've probably read the news and know that Baidu has dug itself a pretty big hole with its less-than-acceptable business practices, but how deep is this hole? This concise article details what must be done in order for Baidu to dig out of this hole and remain ahead of Google in the Chinese search 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.

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?

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.

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?

Google was among 19 Internet companies singled out by the government on Monday, including China's most popular search engine Baidu. The sites were accused of spreading pornography and other material that could corrupt the young.

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.

Great primer on optimizing a site for the Chinese market. The SEO rules for the Chinese Internet market are a bit different than that of any other country. The Internet market works differently due to various social, political and technological reasons.