Google China Partners With China’s SNS on OpenSocial

Just in last post, we wrote about Tianya.cn’s OpenSocial platform, and said it is the third website in China which goes into OpenSocial. In Google Developer Day 2008 in Beijing in yesterday, Kaifu Lee announced Google’s OpenSocial strategy in China.
In addition to MySpace.cn, CityIn and Tianya.cn, seven other Chinese social networking sites will jointly [...]

Google China Released Holiday Mass Migration Map

This week several provinces of China in central and southern China suffered blizzard and ice storm, which seriously damaged the railway and highway transportation. However, the Chinese New Year (the Spring Festival) is coming, tens of millions of Chinese will returned home for annual family reunion, which is the world largest annual mass migration, i.e. [...]

Use Search Engine To Compare Popularity of Chinese Websites

Almost everyone in China’s Internet industry knows that Alexa data is not so reliable, since many Chinese websites tried to cheat Alexa. But when we don’t have another option, we have to count on Alexa, and it seems a Chinese company has partnered with Alexa to provide its Chinese version.
Is there any other method? [...]

CNNIC Report Shows Baidu Strengthened Its Position

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released its latest search engine survey report, its third annual China’s search engine market development report.
The report showed that 74.5% users take Baidu as their primary search engine, increased from 62% from one year ago, while Google China’s market share slipped significantly from 25.3% to 14.3%. The recent report [...]

Google Launches Two Localized Products: Video Search and Transit

Several hours ago, Google launched Chinese version of Video Search and a lab stage product — Google Transit.
While I was typing the address of Chinese Google Video into my browser, I thought it would be a limited way to access some videos in its US version, which is not available in China. In fact, [...]

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