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Baidu Offers Instant Messaging System
2008-03-03 00:00:00 Baidu Hi, a new instant messaging service is planned to be introduced by Baidu, the most popular search engine in China. Baidu said development work on Baidu Hi has been going on for nearly one year and the service is currently being tested internally, in a statement released Friday. But the ... More About: Instant Messaging , System , Offers , Baidu
Video Promotion For Google Universal Search
2008-03-01 00:00:00 Search Marketing Expo West is currently being held at Santa Clara Convention Center in California. One of the hot topics being discussed is the importance of Universal Search Google released in the middle of 2007. Also referred as "Blended Search", Google Universal Search allows users to view search results in a ... More About: Video , Promotion , Search
Examining ?Automatic Match? From Google AdWords
2008-03-01 00:00:00 In case you're not yet aware, a new feature by Google AdWords called "Automatic Match ing" has been introduced. This feature allows Google to use remaining budget for the day on other keywords that relate to existing keywords within a campaign even if they are not in your existing list. So ... More About: Google Adwords , Adwords
HKU, City U Joins Google Online Marketing Challenge
2008-03-01 00:00:00 The University of Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong fielded a total of 15 teams in the competition called Google Online Marketing Challenge. The challenge aims to get students work with businesses near their campuses and allow them to plan effective online marketing campaigns. These students are given ... More About: Online Marketing
SCMP Dilemma: Subscription Money vs Advertiser Money
2008-02-23 00:00:00 One of the few things I hate about South China Morning Post (SCMP), Hong Kong's premier English-language newspaper is that online, you can't access the news unless you are a subscriber. A comparison between The Standard, Hong Kong's first English daily newspaper and SCMP shows that The Standard has a bit ... More About: Money , Dilemma
Hong Kong Spends HK$200 Million On Wi-Fi Construction
2008-02-23 00:00:00 Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority says the government has decided to invest HK$200 million in the coming two years on the construction of Wi-Fi facilities, which will be provided to users free of charge. OFTA also introduced the general situation of Wi-Fi construction in Hong Kong. PCCW has set ... More About: Hong Kong , Construction , Million , Hong
Search Engine Fraud: Baidu Results Unreliable?
2008-02-23 00:00:00 There's an ongoing discussion that Baidu is a search engine that simply dominates China because of its popularity and closer association with Chinese culture and not because of the quality of its results. As Baidu diversifies its business by mulling over instant messaging services and expanding its core search offerings to ... More About: Fraud , Results , Search , Search Engine , Engine
Baidu Helped Spread HK Pornographic Photos
2008-02-21 00:00:00 From Xinhua: Chinese Internet search engine Baidu .com was asked by Beijing's Internet self-discipline organization to make a public apology for spreading Hong Kong star Edison Chen's pornographic photos. Photos supposedly showing Hong Kong actor and singer Edison Chen and several female stars naked in bed and in sexual poses became a hot ... More About: Spread
Google Explores China Music Market
2008-02-21 00:00:00 Google (GOOG) plans to adjust its localization strategy in China to better compete with Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com (BIDU). According to Chinese media, Google will soon cooperate with top100.cn to provide free online music downloading service. This is the first time that Google has come into China's online music market. ... More About: Google , Music , Market
Digital Divide: Youngsters Use Yahoo!; Google: Rich People?s Choice
2008-02-21 00:00:00 It's interesting to find out that social statistics can be tied into search engine usage. A Hitwise study shows that Yahoo ! draws the younger audience while Google is preferred by affluent Internet users. Young people don't have money until they grow up and have jobs. And that's when they might start ... More About: People , Rich , Choice
SEO for Baidu Search Engine
2008-02-21 00:00:00 While optimization tips for SEO for Google and other American search engines are plenty, SEO tips for Baidu remain a few (at least in English-language realm of the web). That's not surprising because Baidu seems more secretive and offer less hints on how web pages will be evaluated. Google is ... More About: Search , Search Engine , Engine
4 Things That Could Happen If Microsoft Buys Yahoo!
2008-02-03 00:00:00 BBC reported Microsoft 's interest in acquiring Yahoo ! for $44.6 billion. If this unsolicited offer gets accepted by Yahoo! to form a more potent alliance to challenge Google, I think there are a few things could probably happen: Loss of jobs Not only Yahoo! is poised to lose 1,000 jobs by mid-February as ... More About: Things
Microsoft Offers $44.6B to Buy Yahoo!
2008-02-02 00:00:00 Microsoft Friday unveiled a bid of 44.6 billion dollars for Yahoo in an effort to merge the world's biggest software company with a major Internet player to take on the Google juggernaut. The deal could reshape the landscape for high technology by combining Microsoft and one of the leading brands on ... More About: Microsoft , Offers , Yahoo!
Google Universal Search in Korea
2008-01-31 00:00:00 In an effort to broaden Google 's market share in Korea , the search engine giant has recently overhauled its search engine in Korea. Korea is one of the world's most wired countries and one of the few where Google continues to struggle against local search players. The concept of Google Universal Search aims ...
AdSense Invites You to Use Your Google Account
2008-01-31 00:00:00 Google AdSense followed its sister products by prompting account owners to switch logins using their Google Account . This unifies the whole login process so that whenever someone accesses his/her Gmail, he or she doesn't have to login using another account to access another Google product. Mine was a Yahoo! ... More About: Google , Adsense
Tips on Managing In-House Paid Search
2008-01-30 00:00:00 Have a Sound Background on Business Objectives Introducing paid search to our teams can require some serious persuasion skills and plenty of tools to back up our claims. Knowing the business objectives isn't just about making sure we get the approval from the finance department. More importantly, we will know where ... More About: House , Tips , Search , Paid
New Link Analysis Tool: Link Diagnosis
2008-01-30 00:00:00 If in case you're looking for tool that analyzes your competitors links, try the new link analysis tool from Link Diagnosis . It prides itself by using Yahoo! API, and displays information about a website's inbound link sources, the PageRank value, anchor text and more. Another interesting report it features is the ... More About: Analysis , Tool
Examining Search Engines? 404 Error Pages
2008-01-30 00:00:00 I was inspired by Rustybrick's post about a Search Engine Watch forum threat that talks about Google's 404 page. 404 pages are displayed once we misspell a URL or click on a broken link. What's coincidental was that I discussed this one in the office this afternoon. So I'd like ... More About: Search Engines , Engines , Error , Pages
Yahoo! To Cut 1,000 Jobs
2008-01-30 00:00:00 In an effort to bolster stocks and refocus on new areas for development, Yahoo ! Chief Executive and co-founder Jerry Yang announced that about 1,000 jobs will have to be slashed from its existing workforce of about 14,300. The cuts represent 7% of the total Yahoo! manpower and will be executed ... More About: Jobs
.edu Links Has No Advantage Over .com or .net
2008-01-30 00:00:00 Our conventional thinking makes us conclude easily that links from domains with exclusive coverage make up a good set of inbound links. Since links from .edu sites (schools, colleges, universities) are likely related to any school function, it's not that easy to penetrate this domain and ask for a link ... More About: Links
Yahoo! Leads Japan Search Engine Market
2008-01-29 00:00:00 Yahoo! leads the search engine market share in Japan in December 2007, according to comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. comScore data showed that Yahoo! had 42.1 million unique visitors last month. Google came in second with 32.3 million visitors while Microsoft came in third with 29.1 million unique visitors. ?The ... More About: Yahoo , Market , Search , Search Engine
10 Most Popular Search Engines in the World
2008-01-27 00:00:00 Baidu.com and Alibaba.com, two of China's major Internet search engines, ranked the world's 10 most popular search engines last month by comScore, an Internet research firm. Highlights In December 2007, 66.2 billion search queries were conducted worldwide. In December 2007, Baidu.com Inc. was the third ranked search property worldwide with 3.4 billion searches, ... More About: Search Engines , World , Search , Popular , The World
Fubon Hong Kong: The Impact of Not Ranking #1 for Brand Keywords
2008-01-25 00:00:00 My colleague Allan posted his reaction about a search result which shows a site with low quality (and probably link popularity) rank ahead of an official site -- using its brand name as part of the keyword. I am talking about Fubon Bank, a Taiwan-based financial company operating in Hong Kong . I ... More About: Keywords , Brand , Ranking
Baidu Controls 60.1% China Search Market Share in Q4 ?07
2008-01-25 00:00:00 Baidu. as expected, led China 's search engine market in last year's fourth quarter with a 60.1 percent share, research firm Analysys International said on Friday. Google Inc came second with a 25.9 percent share, followed by Yahoo China with 9.6 percent, it said in a statement. The current number for Baidu ... More About: Market , Search , Share , Baidu
Position Six Penalty at Google
2008-01-24 00:00:00 There is something going on for the past few weeks when it comes to rankings in Google . It has something to do with predominantly top rankings dropping to sixth for some reasons. The issue was prominent enough that it gathered some publicity at Search Engine Land, thread at Webmaster World ... More About: Penalty , Position
6 Things To Check On Domain Name Registration
2008-01-24 00:00:00 Whether it is for search engine optimization purposes or not, domain name selection plays a big role not only in success of our online business. The domain we pick becomes the brand we will promote for as long as our business exists. There is no looking back and undoing mistakes ... More About: Domain , Domain Name , Check , Things , Domain Name Registration
Live Search Map in MSN China
2008-01-24 00:00:00 Micorosft Virtual Earth recently launched a Chinese-language Live Search Map services through the MSN's China website. Obviously focused on Chinese customers the map service covers the data of 114 Chinese cities and its early edition puts emphasis on public transportation routes in these cities. This is one more reason the ... More About: Live Search
SEO Predictions 2008
2008-01-23 00:00:00 Before end of the first month of the year, here are some bold and fearless SEO predictions for 2008 , swirling around the Web: Google will stop referring to Open Directory data. Reputation management / search leveraged press release services will grow further this year. Yahoo! will struggle in gaining foothold within the search ... More About: Predictions
Restoring Removed URLs From Google
2008-01-23 00:00:00 Sometimes we need to remove our pages from search results and keep them from showing up there. Discontinued product, a bio of a colleague who just left the company or any irrelevant content are some examples of web pages we don't want to show up on search results. We might wonder ... More About: Google
Taking Care of Reputation in Public Forums
More articles from this author:2008-01-23 00:00:00 In some occasions, public forums are places we can easily lose some of our well-guarded reputation. In the context of this post, what I am referring to is some business person who tries to put his/her best foot forward in order to gain good impressions from prospect business partners. At ... More About: Public , Forums , Care , Taking , Reputation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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