Google China Launches Music Search
Aug 6, 2008 at 9:06am ET by Barry Schwartz
Music 2.0 has shared detailed screen captures and commentary on the launch of Google China Music Search. I personally cannot get to this site ("Sorry, Google is not your region provide you with the services they need" message appears"), but Music 2.0 does have screen captures and calls this Google service "more impressive" then many of the international counterparts.
Google China Music Search ranks music on the home page by some form of popularity metric. You can clearly search by artist name and other criteria. You can even download the DRM-free music in mp3 format at a rate of 192kbps. [...]
Filed in: Google: Music, Google: Outside US, Search Engines: Audio Search Engines, Search Engines: Baidu, Search Engines: China Search Engines
Google To Fight Baidu In China With Legal Music Downloads?
Feb 6, 2008 at 8:03am ET by Danny Sullivan
One of the key weaknesses Google has seemed to face in growing market share
in China has been the fact that many people turn to Baidu to download music. Now
the company may be fixing this,
reports
the Wall Street Journal:
Two years after Google Inc. began a big push in China, Baidu.com Inc.
continues to dominate the country's Internet search market, thanks in
significant part to a controversial and legally risky offering: searches for
free, unlicensed music downloads.
Now, Google is preparing a counterstrike, according to people close to the
situation. The U.S. search giant is in the late [...]
Filed in: Google: Music, Google: Outside US, Google: Partnerships, Search Engines: Baidu, Search Engines: China Search Engines
Alibaba IPO Reportedly As Big As Google’s
Nov 6, 2007 at 9:16am ET by Greg Sterling
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both report on the IPO and first day of trading for Alibaba.com. The offering was the biggest IPO by any Chinese company and raised an estimated $2 billion. The market capitalization of the company is now nearly $26 billion. Yahoo owns 39 percent of Alibaba Group, the parent of Alibaba.com, and previously said it would buy 10 percent of the available shares. Some analysts believe the stock is overvalued and unsustainable. But that's what many analysts also said about Google in its early days of trading.
[...]
Filed in: Search Engines: China Search Engines, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Outside US
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