Chinese Search News Roundup

Written by Tangos on June 29, 2006
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Chinese government to regulate blog and search engine: In a teleconference on June 28, Cai Wu, Director of the Information Office of the State Council(国务院新闻办公室), said more and more illegal and harmful information is distributed through blogs and search engines. The government will take measures to regulate BBS, blogs and search engines. And Wang Xudong, Minister of Information Industry, said they will enhance the research on internet and information security issues arose by IM, blogs, mobile internet and search engines. (via Sina)

Google.cn and MSN.com.cn were hijacked: On June 24, Google.cn and MSN.com.cn was resolved to an IP of a B2B site. Interestingly, the B2B site is an subsidiary of a domain name registrar who managed these domain names.

Yahoo Music Introduce Album DIY Service: Yahoo China’s Music Channel redesigned their frontpage recently, and introduce a music album DIY service, which is similar to Baidu’s Zhangmenren.

Education search engine Sooker launched: Sooker will help users to search online education or training courses, and can let users to register those courses online. It is said to include information on 51,000 courses from 18,000 schools and institutions.

TV and video search engine Openv: Openv, a TV and video search engine powered by British company Autonomy, launched recently, and sign partnership with Shanghai Media Group, 263, Toodou, 21cn and some other sites to provide video search service.

First trilingual international job search engine: Recruit.net, a Hongkong-based job search engine, provides English, Chinese and Japanese version. You can search for jobs in Hongkong, China Mainland, Japan, Australia, Singapore and India. In China, it will face the challenge from other job search engines, as JobUI and 01HR.

7 Responses to “Chinese Search News Roundup”

  1. my rmb on July 1st, 2006 4:01 am

    regulate blog
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~okay,very nice,but i think all china blogers will host in US datacenters. how do you government regulate? only the thinking of 80year’s.

  2. Yan on July 2nd, 2006 11:47 am

    It’s very simple: if blogers host in US datacentres, the government will simply block those sites, as they already do now.

  3. Alex on January 4th, 2007 3:06 am

    just adding http://www.meijob.com to the job search engine list :)

  4. ryan posser on February 8th, 2007 1:01 pm

    i prefer recruit.net and http://www.newchinacareer.com for searching jobs in china and hk. they offer jobs in english (more usefull for me as a non chinese speaker ;-)

  5. barak on February 12th, 2007 12:45 am

    Check out http://www.meijob.com - a cool new Ajax job search engine in China with more than 150,000 positions!

  6. Yet Another Online Music Discovery Service « Sampsung @ HiLaws ♨侍孝祥♨ on November 24th, 2007 4:55 pm

    [...] Other search engines have similar feature too. My second choice is Yahoo Music. They have human-edited profile page for artists and bands with their album release history. This is useful to music newbie like me. Their music box service, launched in June, lets users keep their own playlist. You can generate playlist more freely in Yahoo music than in Baidu Zhangmenren. Yahoo’s service is more like a private service, while Baidu’s is for public promotion. In Yahoo, you can save music into your music box directly from search result. [...]

  7. Bonnie on December 13th, 2007 3:55 pm

    Check out http://www.made-in-china.com- A professional b2b website.

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