Report From The Field: Search In China 2008
Sep 24, 2008 at 8:23am ET by Chris Sherman
We're wrapping up SMX China in Nanjing this afternoon. By all measures, the show was a success, with about 300 attendees and a dozen exhibitors, with people from China as well as many other Asian countries, India, Israel and even Africa in attendance.
Search in China is thriving, seemingly impervious to the economic turbulence that's buffeting most of the rest of the world. There are several reasons for this—some obvious, some surprising—but the net takeaway is that China is poised to become an even more important market for search marketers once we've passed through this period o [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Search Engines: Outside USA
How Search Engines Redirect Users To Country-Specific Sites
May 15, 2008 at 10:09am ET by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo
just started redirecting people in the UK who are trying to reach Yahoo.com
instead to its Yahoo UK web site, something
that Google has done for a long time. With the change, this seemed a good time
to revisit how all the major search engines may intercept people trying to reach
their ".com" versions from countries outside the United States.
Below, the examples are drawn from someone in the UK trying to reach .com
versions of each of the major search engines. Those in other countries often
will find similar interception in place.
Yahoo
If you are based in the UK, Yahoo will [...]
Filed in: Ask: Web Search, Google: Outside US, Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Live Search, Microsoft: Outside US, Search Engines: Outside USA, Search Features: General, Yahoo: Outside US, Yahoo: Search
Baidu Relaunches In Japan
Jan 23, 2008 at 8:39am ET by Barry Schwartz
Baidu aims to take on Google and Yahoo in Japan from Reuters reports Baidu has relaunched in Japan at http://www.baidu.jp/. The press release called the launch a "formal launch of its Japanese language search engine."
As part of this launch, Baidu revamped the Japanese home page and added blog search. Baidu currently holds a 70-percent market share in China and hopes to replicate that success in Japan. Here is a comparison of Baidu's main site in China and the new Baidu Japan site, which is more portal in nature.
Baidu China:
Baidu Japan:
Robin Li, Baidu's chairman and CEO, said:
We [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Baidu, Search Engines: Outside USA
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