SubscribeGoogle Rolls Out Laiba, Competing With Baidu Postbar
Laiba is the second product Google rolled out today. It’s also hosted on Tianya’s Domain. The product is similar to Baidu Postbar, which enters or generates discussion board based on search keywords.
Likewise, to enter any discussion board, you just type the topic in search box, and click search. If there’s no such board, you [...]
Google Answers Rebirth From China
By the end of last year, Google shut down its paid Q&A service. Then in June, it rolled out a free answers service in Russia. Now the Chinese version of the service launched, under the domain of Tianya.
This is again a free service. Everything seems to be identical to the Russian version. By cooperating with [...]
Eye Tracking Study on Baidu and Google
About two weeks ago, when a survey report on search engine blind test by China IntelliConsulting (CIC) said that more users thought Google’s search results are better than those of Baidu (48.2% vs. 39.7%), the report was questioned by many people. But an eye tracking study on Baidu and Google may support the conclusion of [...]
Google China Partners With Sina
Google China and Sina announced an important partnership for each other today. They will cooperate on search, news and advertising service. Sina has added Google search service into its website, which will direct Sina’s search traffic to Google, then share the search advertising revenue with Google. Google may also offer Adsense ads. in Sina’s website [...]
Google Launches Life Search: Chinese Version of Google Base
Yesterday Google China launched a classifieds search engine, called Life Search. It now includes housing, job, train ticket, goods and restaurant. This new service has been disclosed in last month.
Both life service and the universal search unveiled two days ago are vertical movements of Google, but they are in different dimensions. Universal search represents different [...]