Baidu Updates Blog Search; Baiduer launches English Version

At noon today, Baidu blog search unveiled several new features: search inside blog, related blogs and similar articles, Baidu’s official blog is reporting.
Now if there’re multiple articles match your search keywords inside one blog, you will find a link named Search Inside This Blog after the blog title. In fact, you can use [blog:URL] to [...]

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 [...]

Yodao: New Search Service from Netease

Yodao is a new search service developed by Netease, a popular portal site in China, in stealth mode for more than a year. (via xucx) Netease started to use Google’s search service in its website since 2004, and Netease also cooperates with Google to place Google Adsense in Netease’s 163.com.
Currently Yodao provides three kinds of [...]

Baidu Blogsearch: A Disappointing Product

Baidu finally launched its long-waited blog search service last week. In the widely-quoted report by People’s Daily, it is said Baidu Blogsearch is “the first Chinese search service specifically for blogs”. But it is not correct. Baidu is facing competition from Qikoo, Souyo and other small players.
According to Yu Jun, a senior executive with [...]

Souyo Rolled Out Major Update

Souyo, a Chinese blog search engine (profile), released a new version recently, added many new features and made major progress in its way to be a China’s Technorati.
The new features of this updated version include:

You can add blog posts and blogs as favorites in search result;
Then you can read the latest posts from your favorite [...]

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