Even before the highly publicized news about Google’s bold plan to produce uncensored search results in China, its popularity in the mainland has been dwindling. This is according to iResearch, a local Chinese search consultancy firm. In addition to Google losing search market share in mainland, Yahoo! and Bing also lost a certain portion of their [...]
Continue reading Google, Yahoo, Bing Lost Search Engine Market Share in China in 200913. January 2010
China’s top search engine has been hacked Tuesday by alleged members of a pro-Iranian government group, according to state media. The group which identifies itself as “Iranian Cyber Army” has replaced the immaculate white homepage of Baidu with a dark motif, map of the Middle East, blood-red text in English and Farsi and Iranian flag. The [...]
Continue reading Baidu Hacked by “Iranian Cyber Army”18. June 2009
According to ChinaTechNews notes that Baidu is now gradually phasing out its search engine advertising bid system that has been in operation for the past eight years. The news source reports that a professional version called “Phoenix Nest” will replace the current version. Paid ads often mix with organic search results and only distinguished by [...]
Continue reading Baidu Closing Search Engine Advertising Bid Ranking System28. March 2009
There seems to be no stopping the Baidu bandwagon in China as Baidu continued its dominance, according to China Internet Network In formation Center (CNNIC). 76.9% of search engine users in China choose Baidu as its first choice. Google captured 16.6 percent of Chinese search engine users last year, up from 14.3 percent the year before, [...]
Continue reading China Search Engine Market Share in 200821. January 2009
Mediadonis reports that there is a new way, albeit strange, weird (or whatever you may call it), to check if a site is penalized or banned by Google. To find out just use the word “hyves” as a subdomain of your website so that if you manage example.com, enter hyves.example.com. Yes, you’d say that it doesn’t [...]
Continue reading Hyves: Strange Way To Check Google Penalty
27. February 2010
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