SubscribeYahoo China Relaunch Yisou Search Service
Yahoo China will relaunch its Yisou search service, but in a different Chinese name.
Before Yahoo China was acquired by Alibaba in 2005, Yahoo China run a separated search only site Yisou (一搜). Yisou terminated its operation in late 2005 after acquisition. In August 2006, Yahoo China unveiled Yahoo.cn to provide search service. Now, Yahoo [...]
Innovative Search UI from Yahoo Engineers
Easysou is a new search UI experiment project from some Chinese Yahoo Engineers. According to the project blog, this site launched in Nov. 2006 or so.
This is just slightly after Google launched Searchmash in Oct. 2006 (Techcrunch report). It’s clearly a response from Yahoo Engineer telling us that they have innovation too. Just like that [...]
Yahoo China Launches Ajax Web Messenger
Cnbeta reported that Yahoo China has launched web interface for Yahoo Messenger. Currently there’s no official announcement yet, and there’s no link from Yahoo Messenger’s homepage. A post on Yahoo China Search blog last month mentioned this coming product.
To have a look at this product, you have to sign in your Yahoo account first. There’s [...]
Yahoo China to Reorganized as Business-Oriented Search?
Yahoo China is going to transforming into a business-oriented search engine to deal with the intense competition from domestic rivals, Jack Ma, CEO of Yahoo China said recently.
Ma said company research showed its search engine attracted more affluent, business-oriented customers, while Baidu’s users were largely students. He said Yahoo China will seek to capitalize [...]
News Roundup: Video, Online Music, Team Purchase and Top Searches of 2006
Chinese video sharing market is so hot: Recently, two video sharing service announced to secure funding. Yoqoo, established by former Sohu President Victor Koo in June, has raised raised $12 million from Sutter Hill Ventures, Farallon Capital and Chengwei Ventures, and Tvix.cn is said to get $20 million funding from several undisclosed investors. There was [...]
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