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 […]
Our second SMX China event kicks off tomorrow in Nanjing, China, and there’s definitely some Olympic spirit that’s rubbed off on this show. The conference, together with the 4th China International Software Product Expo, is the inaugural event in the brand spanking new Nanjing International Expo Center, a world-class event complex that’s kin to Beijing […]
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During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, NBCOlympics.com is streaming 2,200 hours of exclusive live Olympic video, as well as over 3,000 hours of replays. This content is housed exclusively on the NBC site. Users can search NBCOlympics.com to watch their favorite highlights or catch something they may have missed. But can hungry Olympic video fans find […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Today is the day that the 2008 Summer Olympics kick off in Beijing. Here are the logos from Google, Yahoo and Ask.com for the special day:
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
Hey, I like Twitter, but this entire thing Robert Scoble started about how Twitter had news of the Chinese earthquake before the US Geological Survey seemed absurd. Did it really? As it turns out, probably so — by about three minutes. Reading some of the accounts, you’d get the impression Twitter seemed to alert the […]
Google Seeks a Leading Role in China from the Wall Street Journal reports that Google China’s president, Kai-Fu Lee, wants Google to be a market leader in China in five years. Kai-Fu Lee said, “Certainly, we would like to aspire to be a market leader in five years.” His plans to achieving that goal is […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Over the past several weeks I have explored some of the issues involved with categorization of businesses in Google Maps on my blog, Understanding Google Maps. In Part 1, I detailed the more than year-long history of small business frustration. In Part 2, I provided some background on the early research and the difficulty with […]
China’s top Internet search engine, Baidu.com, censured for allegedly spreading racy photos from the International Herald Tribune reports Baidu has been censured by a government backed watchdog group for helping spread “filthy pictures.” Internet users in China were reportedly using Baidu to find images of actor Edison Chen and several female stars in sexual acts […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Beijing court sides with Baidu in music piracy case from the AFP reports that Baidu has won a copyright case in a Beijing appeals court against the music labels. The court upheld the decision that Baidu is not guilty of property rights infringement for displaying links to web sites that are offering illegal music downloads.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Lawsuit Over Google’s Chinese Name Dismissed from Pacific Epoch reports a Chinese court has dismissed the Guge and Google case, which began earlier this month. The Haidian People’s Court in Beijing dismissed the case today. It was dismissed because Google used “Gu Ge” on April 12, 2006, which was seven days before Beijing Gu Ge […]
Yahoo! Found Guilty of Mass Copyright Infringement from TorrentFreak reports Yahoo China lost the case over linking to unlicensed music in China. Didn’t they already lose the case? Well, in April they were ordered to remove those links and ordered to pay 200,000 yuan. But they then appealed that ruling in November. Now the Beijing […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Chinese Company Takes Google to Court from the AP reports the case between Guge and Google has begun this week. Beijing’s Guge Sci-Tech Co. took Google China to court for infringement over their name. Guge Sci-Tech Co. registered the name on April 19, 2006 with Beijing Municipal Industrial and Commercial Bureau. Google China didn’t register […]
Reports have been coming in that people trying to reach Google, Yahoo and Microsoft from within China or via Chinese ISPs are being redirected to Baidu. Some have accused Baidu of hijacking the traffic, but we think it’s likely that China is upset with the US over the award it granted to the Dalai Lama […]
Cheeky China company says to sue Google over name from Reuters reports Beijing Guge, a Chinese company, is suing Google over their name. Beijing Guge wants Google to change their corporate name to something else. Beijing Guge says that they get tons of phone calls with people confusing Guge for Google. They said people are […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Desktop is now available for those running Linux as their operating system. You’ll find Google Desktop for Linux for download here.. Google Desktop for Linux was developed by Google’s Beijing engineering team and runs on Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, and Red Flag 5. The available languages include English, French, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. But before the news, a request! When Online Marketing Blog had a poll for best search podcast recently, I was one of the few that did NOT beg, plead or cajole listeners to vote for […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
China court orders Yahoo China to curb music links from Reuters reports Beijing’s No. 2 Intermediate Court has ordered Yahoo China to remove “links to free Web sites offering music-downloads.” In addition, Yahoo China has to pay 200,000 yuan ($27,200 US) “facilitating distribution” of this music. Yahoo China said they will be appealing this decision.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google, Baidu race to set up online library in China via Reuters reports that Baidu and Google are going at it to be the largest and best book search service in China. Reuters writes that Peking University Library in Beijing, “one of Asia’s largest academic libraries,” already has a partnership agreement with Baidu. We reported […]
Yahoo! China sued for alleged copyright breach at Reuters reports that Yahoo China has been sued by Warner Music Group Corp. and other music giants for linking to “unlicensed music.” The case was filed in early January by “11 companies and seeks damages of 5.5 million yuan ($710,686).” In November of last year, music publishers […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
MarketWatch reports that Microsoft and Baidu struck a deal where Baidu will be powering the paid search ads at Microsoft’s MSN, Live.com and other China based services. Again, Baidu is to power Microsoft’s ads in China, not the other way around. Baidu has the official press release. From the top of that: