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Baidu’s Myspace: It is rumored that Baidu will launch a Myspace-like service called “Kongjian”, in Chinese Kongjian means spaces. It will include the service of blog, photo albums and social networking. The service will use the sub-domain name of Kongjian.baidu.com, which is not live so far.
Difficulty in accessing Google: From a week ago, Chinese internet users in north China started to encounter difficulty in accessing Google and other service as Gmail. Will Google.com finally become inaccessible, and all the traffice has to change to Google.cn? On the other hand, Chinese bloggers are discontented with Google China’s official blog, since it did not have any explaination on the issues.
Google Toolbar Ignore Google.cn: In Google Toolbar 4 Chinese version, it does not have the option of setting the default search engine of Toolbar into Google.cn. There are more than a hundred options, but no Google.cn.
Yahoo China Launch Search Blog: While bloggers are discontented with Google China’s official blog, most of them applaud Yahoo China’s new Chinese search blog. Different from Google’s, Yahoo’s search blog support comments and trackbacks by readers and bloggers. It is also a step for Jack Ma’s aggressive ambitions to beat Baidu and Google in China.
Sohu Releases a Chinese Input Tool: A new Chinese input software was released by Sohu, its special feature is to use searching data from Sogou, a Sohu’s search engine, to upgrade the database of Chinese words in real time, to help users to input new words easily, for example, names of those new stars emerging from Super Voice Girl, an American Idol like TV show.
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China Web2.0 Review reports of the following news on the Chinese search front: Baidu to launch a MySpace called Kongjian Google access problem: google.com redirected to google.cn ? Google Toolbar ignoring: Google.cn Yahoo China to launch Blog search So…
[...] Still, there was a particular problem with Google. Andrew Lih has done very solid tracking of the problem here and here. China Web 2.0 Review, meanwhile, notes that Chinese users were frustrated with Google over the inaccessibility of the uncensored site.: Difficulty in accessing Google: From a week ago, Chinese internet users in north China started to encounter difficulty in accessing Google and other service as Gmail. Will Google.com finally become inaccessible, and all the traffic has to change to Google.cn? On the other hand, Chinese bloggers are discontented with Google China’s official blog, since it did not have any explanation on the issues. [...]
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[...] Selon plusieurs sources (Reporters Sans Frontières et des blogs chinois), l’accès a google.com serait de plus en plus difficile dans le nord du pays. En plus du moteur de recherche de Google.com, le courriel Web Gmail et la version internationale de Google News - le service de compilation d’actualités de Google - seraient également bloqués, souligne l’organisme dans son communiqué Google.com bloqué, l’étau se resserre autour des internautes. En outre, les logiciels qui pouvaient être utilisés pour contourner cette censure auraient été rendus presque totalement inefficaces. Par contre - google.cn- la version chinoise censurée du moteur de recherche - serait toujours accessible. Un post tres instructif sur l’état des moteurs de Chine : http://www.cwrblog.net/203/chinese-search-news-roundup.html [...]