Archive for December, 2006

B2B eCommerce Meets Yahoo Answer

Alibaba, the popular B2B ecommerce platform in China, rolled out a new ask&answer feature, AliAnswer (阿里帮帮, it don’t have a official English name so far) in last month.
As Yahoo Answer, AliAnswer is a platform for users to ask questions and get real answers from other users who would like to share their knowledge or [...]

Sina Officially Announced Its Video Sharing Service

We’ve heard that Sina would launch its podcasting service for several months, today Sina officially announced this new service in this afternoon’s press conference.
Sina calls it a podcasting service, or in Chinese 播客. But in fact, it is just another video sharing service, since users can only upload video files, no audio file formats [...]

Souyo Relaunches River-of-News Aggregator

Beijing based Souyo is one of the few independent Chinese blog search engines that we have been tracking. Several days ago, it launched a new online feeds reader, Sofa (Press Release).
We call it a relaunch, because it originally has an inline feeds aggregator and the new product is just a slightly dress-uped version.
We don’t [...]

Baidu Manipulates Search Rank

All of us may know Baidu mixes organic search results together with paid listing results, however maybe you don’t know Baidu also manipulates rank of results from various websites. Last week, a leaked email proved it. (via csew group (membership required))
Peter Wang, Branding Director of Baidu sent the email to Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, [...]

eBay China and Tom Partnership To Announce This Week?

The rumor that eBay will quit Chinese market by selling its asset in China to Tom Online has been prevailed for quite a long time. Today famous blogger Keso published an email today sent to him by who claimed himself an employee of eBay and “know everything on this deal”. The email leaked part of [...]

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