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

An Inside Look At China’s Internet Population

Jul 12, 2007 at 12:17pm ET by Chris Sherman

Deborah Fallows, Senior Research Fellow, Pew Internet & American Life Project, has just published a fascinating report detailing the demographics of Chinese internet users. Deb, an American currently living in Shanghai, notes that "there are now an estimated 137 million internet users in China, second in number only to the United States, where estimates of the current internet population range from 165 million to 210 million. The growth rate of China's internet user population has been outpacing that of the U.S., and China is projected to overtake the U.S. in the total number of users within a [...]

Filed in: Search & Society, Search Engines: China Search Engines

A Tale Of Two Cultures

Jun 1, 2007 at 6:52am ET by Gord Hotchkiss

Last week I had the opportunity to present some very preliminary results from our Chinese eye tracking study to a Chinese audience at Search Engine Strategies Xiamen. We’re still going over the results and preparing a final report, the highlights of which I’ll cover in this column in a few weeks. What I did want to do in today’s column is talk about our findings at a higher level. Doing this research made me realize that the typical user experience in one part of the world is not necessarily a typical user experience in another. Best practices don’t always transfer cleanly and ne [...]

Filed in: Google: Outside US, Just Behave, Search Engines: Baidu, Search Engines: China Search Engines

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