Category: SEO China
Chinese Language Top-Level Domains Coming in 2013
We have seen for some time that Chinese characters have been available for use in the website URL, but this latest announcement from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will take foreign language web addresses to a whole new level. Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report blog informs us that we [...]
Yahoo! China Shuts Down Music Search Functionality
With China’s netizens preferring other services for their music needs, Yahoo! China has decided to pull the plug on its own musical search offering. The decision makers have come to the conclusion that competing in an industry that is largely supported by piracy is not profitable. As People’s Daily Online reports, Yahoo! China has been [...]
Baidu and Kingsoft Set to Team Up
Various reports last week appeared to suggest that Baidu and Kingsoft will be combining their powers to take on Qihoo 360. It has been reported that Baidu are looking at purchasing a significant stake in the software company. What has become increasingly apparent, is that Qihoo doesn’t seem to have many friends in the local [...]
Has Google Given in to China’s Pressure?
Regular Google users in China may have noticed a subtle change during their searches. The long battle between Google.cn and the Chinese authorities could finally be over. As reported in great detail by GreatFire.org, the connectivity message that appears when a user searches for a potentially censored keyword now no longer appears, and has done [...]
Baidu’s Lenovo A586 Launched
On 10 December 2012, Baidu launched their latest smartphone, the Lenovo A586, with a retail price of 999RMB, approximately US$160. The handset marks one of the biggest steps forward in mobile strategy for the search engine, and there is a vast amount of technology squeezed into the sub 1,000RMB price point. Rather than simply copying [...]
Increasing Mobile Phone Usage Makes Voice Search Imperative
With the decline in the cost of smart phones, it’s not an exaggeration to say that almost everyone owns one. Naturally, this will have an impact on the Internet, but to what extent has it changed the status quo? Compared to a desktop computer, mobile phones have the advantage of being conveniently compact and portable. [...]
