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China Says: Baidu 1st, Google 2nd, No Bing
China’s Q2 online search market result is out. According to iResearch, a Chinese Internet Consultancy, Google’s share of the Chinese online market dipped by 1.1% while Baidu maintains its stronghold,...
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Google Lost Search Share to Yahoo!
So what has the new homepage and Bing deal done for Yahoo so far? A growth surge in search share perhaps. All searches increased by 5% in July but while all major search engines grew, Yahoo experienced...
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Microsoft Bing’s Twitter and Facebook Social Search [Updated: Google Now In]
According to All Things Digital (WSJ), Facebook and Twitter have both agreed to allow users’ status updates to be searchable on Bing’s search engine. Congratulations to our favorite social networking...
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TWIA #62: O Smithy, Where art thou?
Yes, everyone is checking out on Smithy’s location these days. Yet, the news of the week from TenCube being acquired by McAfee to Google’s foray into China & Japan dominated the Asian landscape...
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Baidu and Microsoft Partnership [UPDATED]
Update: No confirmation, I apologize to Baidu on miscommunication. More announcement later. Yesterday, rumors were spreading across the web that Baidu and Microsoft would be partnering together in...
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Baidu Pushes ‘Box Computing’ for Smarter, Interactive Web Searches [REVIEW]
Baidu is pushing to make its search results box smarter, more relevant, and more alive – that’s why numerous popular searches in the Baidu search bar can bring up an interactive frame that could, among...
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It’s a Deal: Baidu to Get English Search Results From Bing
Finally it’s official. Both Baidu and Microsoft China have confirmed it: Baidu’s partnership with Microsoft’s Bing for English-language searches on Baidu.com is a done deal – after several months of...
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China Digest – 8 Jul
Here you can find some interesting startup news from China, not only in its capital, Beijing, but also other startup hubs such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, Hangzhou, and many more. (1) According to a local...
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Baidu International Launches, Aimed at Global Brands
[Update: A Baidu International rep called us to clarify the launch. We were told that Baidu International is a partnership between China Search International and Baidu. It is set up to help...
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Has Google Dropped to Third Place in China? [STATS]
New data from web analytics company CNZZ suggests that Google (NASQAQ:GOOG) is now in third place in China in terms of search engine traffic – pushed down by the rise of Sohu’s (NASDAQ:SOHU)...
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Bing Translator App for WP7 Can Now Speak, Read, Scan Chinese
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone platform has just given itself an interesting linguistic edge in China by adding support for translating to/from Chinese in its Bing Translator app. This now...
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Hudong, China’s Wikipedia, Raises $50 Million in Funding
Hudong is China’s massive, crowd-sourced encyclopedic wiki – with 6.4 million articles to date – which is run as a for-profit company. And now it has more cash to play with after raising $50 million...
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Satellite Mapping Showdown: Who’s the King of Asia?
Yesterday, I came across the news that Bing has added 165 TB of data to its satellite maps, and it got me thinking. Google is of course the longtime champ of when it comes to satellite maps, but both...
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Bing’s China Strategy: Target English Search
Yesterday, Microsoft senior VP Shen Xiangyang announced Bing’s new short-term strategy for China’s search market: differentiate itself by going after the 5 percent of searches that happen in English...
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Baidu Wins Mid-Autumn Festival “Search Engine Doodle Competition”
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival and Sunday guys! By now many of you, especially in China and Taiwan, should have seen some customized doodle on the front page of search engines like Google, Baidu, and...
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Qihoo’s New Search Engine Surges to 10% Share in China, Google Drops to 4th...
Chinese traffic stats company CNZZ has calculated the impact of Qihoo’s (NYSE:QIHU) controversial new search engine in the China market, and reckons that it has grabbed the second spot with nearly 10...
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Here’s How Search Engines are Performing in China at the End of 2012
Google had to get used to being in fourth place in China in 2012. 2012 was a year of disruption, frustration, and lost users for search engines operating in China – the emotion depends upon which of...
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Qihoo’s Search Engine Market Share Up 2%, Mainly at Expense of Baidu
When we last looked at search engine market share in China, the bruiser of a newcomer, Qihoo’s (NYSE:QIHU) So.com search service, was slowly making inroads on its major rival. But new data from the...
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With Market Share Shrinking, Bing’s China Dream is in Serious Danger
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has never been a major player in China. The company itself conceded that last fall when it all but abandoned Chinese language search, opting instead to focus on what it...
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Bing Denies Wrongdoing in Sogou Privacy Leak Mess
Microsoft’s Bing China denied responsibility yesterday for a data leak in Sogou’s mobile input method that Sogou says is ultimately the fault of Bing and other search engines. “Bing search has not...
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These Two Graphs Show Painful Drops for Google and Baidu in China Search...
Now that it’s July we have market share data for China’s hard-fought search engine sector. The industry was reinvigorated last August by the entrance of Qihoo (NYSE:QIHU) (previously a web portal and...
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Baidu down, Qihoo up, Google dead: 2013 was a year of drama for China’s...
Baidu down; Qihoo up; Google dead. That’s the summary of what happened to search engines in China in 2013. It was a year of big and dramatic changes. Baidu’s (NASDAQ:BIDU) slide was put into motion in...
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We ran our own Microsoft Bing censorship test. This is what we found.
Last week Greatfire.org, a website that tracks web censorship in China, issued a report claiming that Microsoft Bing was deliberately censoring its Chinese-language search results abroad. The report...
View ArticleChina gets key iOS 8 upgrades and QuickType love from Apple
Apple’s Tim Cook at WWDC today just announced that nearly half of China’s new iOS users switched away from Android. But this small claim to Chinese mobile growth, an hour later, is eclipsed by Apple’s...
View ArticleThe worst (and best) Chinese names for foreign tech companies
What's in a name? Well, an awful lot it turns out. Study these examples if you don't want to screw up your Chinese branding.
View ArticleBing isn’t a failure. It’s the future of the internet.
While Bing is laughed at, it’s actually a profitable product, which demonstrates the power of the control tech companies can have
View ArticleWith almost $100m in ARR without taking VC money, Ahrefs is now challenging...
Ahrefs wants to be the answer to the search query, “Who is Google’s rival?”
View ArticleCoc Coc is aiming to be Vietnam’s Bing. Its ex-CEO wants to stop it
Since 2013, Vietnamese search engine Coc Coc has been battling Google’s dominance in the country. But internal conflicts might have slowed its growth.
View ArticleTencent completes merger with Chinese search engine Sogou
Sogou’s business and products will be absorbed into corresponding departments under Tencent’s platform and content group.
View ArticleMicrosoft reintroduces AI-powered Bing to fend off Google Search
Bing will implement an AI language model from OpenAI that is "more powerful" than ChatGPT.
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View ArticleOpenAI sets sights on Japan office
The move comes after a meeting between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
View ArticleIn 50 Words: Microsoft mulled selling Bing search engine to Apple
If the deal had pushed through, Bing would have replaced Google as the default search engine on Apple's devices.
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