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, [...]

Blog Is Important to China’s Portal Sites

Loverty made an interesting comparison in his blog post today. Based on Alexa data, he compared the percentage of traffic to blog service in overall traffic of China’s major internet portals, including Sina, Sohu, Netease, QQ and Baidu.
According to Alexa data, QQ’s Q-zone service is the most trafficed service among all QQ’s services, it [...]

Sina opened video search engine

Sina has quietly launched video search under its search brand iAsk, iAsk video. Although it’s called video search, but it has features of a video sharing site. Users can upload videos and manage their clips collections. They also have personal profile page, although some advanced features like subscription are still missing.
The search result includes videos [...]

Should Microsoft Complain of Interface Theft by Sina?

I just read a post in Techcrunch which cited a blog post by Garry Wiseman, who criticize Sina, a China’s portal site, to “steal design and graphics” of Microsoft Live Expo. To quote some of his words:
[Sina.com] had not only lifted our previous user interface’s look & feel, but also directly copied some of our [...]

China Search News Roundup (Aug. 21st)

- iAsk Adds Premium Database Search Service: iAsk, search engine by Sina, partnered with Souku.com.cn to launch a new premium search service. Users can search various business information, such as statistics data, research reports, technical documents, patent information and so on. Any users can search and read the abstract of the document before pay for [...]

« go back — keep looking »

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: akst_share_form() in /home/.omar/cwr/cwrblog.net/wp-content/themes/cwr4/footer.php on line 12