It did not take long for Baidu to show everyone it benefited from Google’s widely publicized departure from China operations earlier this year. The Chinese search engine giant announced its unaudited first quarter earnings that indicated an increase of more than half of its earnings in the past year. First quarter revenues hit 1.294 RMB, 59.6 [...]
Continue reading Baidu Starting to Reap Gains of Google’s China Exit28. April 2010
According to the annual China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) report “2009 Report on the Behavior of China’s Young Internet Users”, the number of young Chinese Internet users — those who are younger than 25 — rose almost 17 percent to 195 million from the end of 2008 to 2009. In addition, this group accounts [...]
Continue reading 195M Young Chinese Netizens Spend Time Online On Music, Games, Video23. March 2010
You may call it fulfilling of an earlier promise or you may call it defiance over a bigger authority but Google has finally removed censored search results on its China search engine since early today. A blog posted by Google on its official blog indicated that everyone accessing its Google China site (google.cn) site will [...]
Continue reading Google China Stops Censoring Search Results, Points to Google Hong Kong27. February 2010
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 200916. January 2010
It’s now four years since Google made a decision to censor search results in China. In 2006, Google decided to launch the censored Google.cn search engine after its global site Google.com was perpetually down 10% of the time. Now, after the attacks and disconnection between the quality of results of Google China site and non-censored [...]
Continue reading Google’s China Exit Strategy
2. May 2010
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