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Baidu.com Inc (NASDAQ: BIDU), the world’s largest Chinese language search engine, has begun a campaign to establish websites for half a million Chinese small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for free, CEO Li Yanhong said. “The global financial fiasco, in a sense, is an opportunity for SMEs to go online,” said Baidu vice president Shen Haoyu. [...]
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Baidu.com Inc (NASDAQ: BIDU), the largest Chinese language search engine, snatched an 86.2% share of all search engine hits among 100 million plus Chinese internet café users in October, iResearch figures show. China has over 130,000 registered internet cafés nationwide running over 12 million computers.
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Baidu this month announced its new advertising product called “Brand-Link” which will generate content based on brand-related search phrases. Brands that subscribe to this new product will expect to find their listings among news, product information and promotional announcements.
When a searcher runs a query on Baidu for a brand name or catchword of an offline [...]
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Many International advertisers have yet to realise that China’s most dominate Search Engine is Baidu. Many of our clients we work with from the US or Europe automatically assume that Google is the number one ranked engine and want keyword management and support for just this single engine. It is further complicated for the International [...]
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Another interesting development in the Chinese Internet landscape where Youku.com has started to block the video search of Baidu and Google. This follows the Chinese online auction and e-commerce website Taobao.com which starting blocking the search engines of Baidu, Google and Yahoo back in September of this year.
The Internet site China Tech News reported that [...]
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Have you ever used Baidu? Or Acoona? How about Sohu or Yisou?
 
According to one source, these are a few of the most popular Chinese language search engines. A complete of the “most popular” ones from that same source includes:
 
Baidu www.baidu.com
Acoona www.accoona.cn
Sohu www.sohu.com
Yisou www.yisou.com
Sogou www.sogou.com
Google China www.google.cn
Sina www.sina.com.cn
3721.com www.3721.com
Yahoo cn.yahoo.com
NetEase www.163.com
 
I was messing around on [...]

Interesting at this weeks AGM, Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com (BIDU) resolved to drop the .com from their name.
The company’s official name has now changed from Baidu.com, Inc. to Baidu, Inc., which further removes a connection to the company’s pure Internet-related assets. No reason for the change has been forthcoming from the company but it [...]
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The following is an article I recently published on SeekingAlpha.com. It is a bit more investor oriented than most posts, but it provides a great summary of four Chinese Internet firms worth observing. To view the original article on SeekingAlpha.com please click on this link.
Last month Alibaba.com announced its Q3 figures reporting EPS up 57% [...]

After a long week of overtime with my eyes glued to the computer screen, I needed some time away from the monitor.  On Saturday morning I walked from my apartment to the newspaper stand down the street and picked up a copy of the only print Chinese publication I read on a regular basis, Caijing [...]

If you have an advertising account with Baidu, you have two main options to add funds to your pay per click account:
1-Bank transfer to the local Baidu branch through which your account was opened (payment through the post is also possible)
2-Online transfer directly through your Baidu account (Baidu has a direct gateway through China Merchant [...]
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