Baidu’s Search Results Turning into Pure Advertising
Blogger Marc van der Chijs’ looks at how Baidu is taking advantage of being the only search engine in town now that Google has left for Hong Kong: One big difference between Baidu and Google is how the...
View ArticleGoogle Exit Appears to Benefit Top China Rival, Baidu
Since Google moved its Chinese search engine to Hong Kong, Baidu has made rapid gains in the mainland market, Reuters reports: Baidu posted first-quarter net profit of 481 million renminbi, or $70.4...
View ArticleOfficial: Google’s China Changes in Line with Law
The Washington Post reports on Google’s status in China: China renewed Google’s Internet license after it pledged to obey censorship laws and stop automatically switching mainland users to its...
View ArticleChina Mobile Search Engine Eyes Market Share
Xinhua and China Mobile will jointly start a search engine. From Financial Times: Xinhua, China’s official news agency, and China Mobile, China’s largest mobile telecoms operator, are setting up a...
View ArticleBaidu Tests Web Browser as China Search Leader Expands Range
China’s leading search engine is said to have developed a personal web browser currently being tested internally. This development may put Baidu in competition with Microsoft and Google in the...
View ArticleGoogle’s Future in China Uncertain
Two stories today bring into question Google’s future in China, which has been under scrutiny since the company moved its search engine off servers inside China. PC Magazine reports that Sina, China’s...
View ArticlePeople’s Daily Launches “Jike” Search Engine
China’s state-run People’s Daily newspaper has launched its own search engine. Shanghaiist’s Patrick Keefe manages to contain his enthusiasm: While the term jike’s actual meaning is “immediate”,...
View ArticleMicrosoft to Partner With China’s Leading Search Engine
In another blow to Google in China, it’s just been announced that its key U.S. rival, Microsoft, is teaming up with its key Chinese rival, Baidu, to provide English search in Chinese cyberspace. From...
View ArticleChinese Web Search Giant Serves Two Masters
The New York Times describes problems facing Chinese search giant Baidu, including its changing relationship with the authorities following Google’s withdrawal. The company has gained a reputation in...
View ArticleState Broadcaster Bashes Baidu
The Economist examines recent attacks by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on search giant Baidu, which has been accused of ducking around advertising regulations and profiting from online slander. So...
View ArticleGoogle Exposes Keyword Filtering
In a blogpost, Google announced that it will improve its search service in mainland China by notifying its users about sensitive search characters and phrases: Over the past couple years, we’ve had a...
View ArticleGoogle Removes Search Filter Notification
In May, Google users in China who searched politically sensitive terms discovered a new feature when they used the search engine: a pop-up notice informing them why their search yields no results, and...
View ArticleGoogle’s China Dance Continues
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt capped off his private trip to North Korea with a stop in Beijing late last week to meet with Chinese mobile application developers, according to The People’s...
View ArticleCensorship Lawsuit Against Baidu and China Dismissed
A Manhattan judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by eight New York-based writers and video producers against Baidu and China itself in 2011. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman ruled that the defendants...
View ArticleMinistry of Truth: Search Engines, Sex Scandals
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to these instructions as...
View ArticleMicrosoft Accused of Search Censorship Beyond China
Censorship monitor GreatFire.org has accused Microsoft’s Bing search engine of censoring results for sensitive terms including “Dalai Lama,” even for users outside China. Other terms, such as “June 4th...
View ArticleUnpacking the Microsoft China Censorship Scandal
Following accusations that Microsoft internationally censored politically sensitive content on its search engine Bing, and Microsoft’s subsequent denial, Jason Q. Ng at The Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleWill Google’s Default Search Encryption Matter in China?
Google’s global move toward encrypting search by default, which began last month, was prompted by the Edward Snowden NSA leaks last summer, but Craig Timberg and Jia Lynn Yang report that it may...
View ArticleAn Autocomplete Analysis of China’s Collective Psyche
At the New Republic, Christopher Beam describes his experience using Baidu’s autocomplete capabilities to “analyze the collective psyche” of the popular Chinese search engine’s users: [...] As I played...
View ArticleChina’s Battle Against Google Heats Up
Dan Levin at The New York Times reports that Chinese authorities have blocked Google’s search engines and made other services—including Translate, Gmail, and Calendar—inaccessible. The reported block...
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