Baidu Starts To Promote C2C Service

Baidu C2C is one of the most important new product in 2008, which have potential to change the competitive landscape of China’s C2C market, which is dominated by Taobao.com. Yesterday, Baidu started a roadshow to promote its new C2C service to sellers.
There is only very limited information about Baidu C2C so far, we don’t [...]

Baidu To Operate Online Game Service

It is reported today that Baidu will partner with online game operators to operate online game service soon, the official news will be announced early next week. Acutally, you can access the Baidu online game channel already.
Baidu now partners with Shanda, Joycub.cn and 51wan.com to operate six browser games. Among all six games, four [...]

Product Pulse: Baidu Startpages, Sina Space And Community Search

Baidu has launched personal startpages. Unlike iGoogle, Baidu doesn’t let you add your own news feeds, not to say programmable gadgets.
Currently all you can customize are a couple of handy assistants, news aggregation and search keyword trends. Since Baidu’s news aggregation is the best out there, the product still makes perfect sense even with [...]

Baidu Hi: The IM from Baidu

The IM penetration rate is in China is much higher than email (81% vs. 57%), and Tencent has built a cash machine around its popular IM client QQ. So it is totally not surprised that Baidu will roll out its own IM tool, and it has been rumored in the market for about a year. [...]

Blogging Not Important For Baidu Space Anymore

Baidu Space was originally launched as a blogging service in July 2006, accompanied by its blog search engine. Since then, the service has been growing steadily, but not dominating.
A recent update of the service allows users to change their space into MySpace style in one step. The new style, which is called “Networking Style”, highlights [...]

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