Western Search Engines Redirected in China
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Without reason, Western search engines in China are now being redirected to Chinese search site Baidu.
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Internet search engine Google has been accused of censoring the Chinese news service that it launched two weeks ago. Web hosting company Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT) reported that Google&#39;s Chinese news
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China's top Internet search firm  Baidu.com aims to overtake Google and Yahoo Japan with its  local search engine in Japan, its executives said on Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Google may be steadilyÂ losing market shareÂ in China to rival Baidu.com, but the company is not giving up, adding several new features to its Google.cn search engine, including some capabilities that are not available on Google.com. The Google.cn search engine was launched by Google in early 2006. The search engine, whichÂ culls search resultsÂ that might offend the Chinese government's censors, was created to help Google grow faster in China, where the company's main search engine, Google.com, is sometimes slow or unavailable. There was just one problem with this strategy: most of Google's Chinese users still prefer to use Google.com, which also offers the ability to search the Web in Chinese, instead of Google.cn. That hasn't discouraged Google, which in recent months has steadily added new features to Google.cn, such as the ability to search Chinese Web sites using Pinyin, a romanization system for characters that allows Chinese words to be spelled out using the Roman alphabet. That capability, already available from Baidu, allows users to search using Chinese without having to switch from English to Chinese input systems. Searching on Google.cn for 'zhong guo,' which means 'China,' still returns a list of results containing these words. But like Baidu, the Web site also asks if you want to search for 'China' using Chinese characters. Clicking on that link brings a user to another page of results for the Chinese characters 'zhong guo,' which also includes links to a couple of news stories. In addition to allowing users to search for Pinyin, Google.cn now has an auto-complete compatibility, introduced in January, similar to the company's Google Suggest service. This feature suggests possible search terms on Google.cn when letters or characters are entered -- a feature that you won't find on Baidu or the main Google.com search engine. Typing 'zho' into the search field on Google.cn now yields a list of search terms in Chinese characters, including 'China Mobile,' 'Bank of China,' and 'China maps,' among others, along with the number of results available for each term. Ironically, the top search result on Google.cn for 'China maps' is Sougou Map Search, a service offered by rival Sohu.com Inc., that competes with Google.cn's own localized map service, which was launched earlier this month. Whether the addition of these features will help reverse Google's fortunes in China remains to be seen. The search engine's popularity has fallen steadily over the last year, even among the older and more affluent Internet users that the company once considered its strongest base. (Steven Schwankert, in Beijing, contributed to this story.)
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 15 September: Chinese police authorities shut down more than 320 illegal web sites and Internet columns and deleted 15,000 items of hazardous information from Internet from September 6 to 8.
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By Perrin, Bill; Naya, Hiroshi; Huang, Wendy; Fuchs, Robert  VOX POP  Yahoo dominates the search engine market in Japan. The entry of China's Baidu and Korea's NHN there raises the question of whether or not they can succeed.
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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia once said, &#8220;Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.&#8221; And while he&#8217;s dabbling with the concept of an open-source search engine, Dr. Riza C Berkan of Hakia.com believes the fix is in the semantics.  The CEO and founder of the &#8220;meanings&#8221; [...]
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Results from competing engines appear side by side on Australian search site SearchBoth.
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An effort by Beijing authorities to bar access to the Chinese Google News website would be a considerable setback for the US internet search company, which is seeking to expand its
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Google and SINA team up in a Chinese search partnership.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Ask.com's search engine is sharpening its focus on local results in an attempt to make a bigger splash on the World Wide Web.
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By Jonathan Thaw and John Liu  Baidu.com, China's most-used Internet search engine, forecast first-quarter sales will grow at the slowest pace since the company went public, as competition from Google increases.
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Google technology will power China.com's online search engine under the terms of a partnership announced.
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Many of the top Search Engines have posted their top searches of 2004. As many search engines revealed, World Wrestling Entertainment barely made some lists; others not at all.
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Google Inc.'s recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from Web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to "do no evil."
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Chinese Wikipedia users say the Web site highlights the resilience of an information control system whose reach goes beyond simple censorship.
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(InfoWorld) - A new report shows Baidu.com increased its share of the search market in China's top cities, while rival Google lost groundÂ despite continued heavy investments in its Chinese operations. Baidu has a 69.5 percent share of the search market in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, up 7.6 percentage points since last year, according to a report (in Chinese) by Peter Lu, managing partner and chief analyst at China IntelliConsulting Corp. (CIC). Meanwhile, Google saw its share of the market shrink, falling 1.1 percentage points to 23 percent. Google's decline was offset somewhat by improved performance among students during the most recent six months. But the company continued to lose its older, more affluent users to Baidu, the report said. These figures are likely to step up the pressure on Google China President Kai-Fu Lee to deliver results for the company. Google China has grown quickly, hiring hundreds of staff and moving into a new building close to the campus of Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University. But these investments have yet to deliver the hoped-for domination of China's search market and raised concerns the company expanded too fast in the country. Those concerns came to a head in April, whenÂ Google admittedÂ that a software tool released by its Chinese operations used a database developed by rival Sohu.comÂ for a competing product -- a stunning admission for a company that is widely respected for the strength of its engineering operations and the caliber of its software developers. The CIC report had some good news for Google. The company's efforts to strengthen its Chinese search capabilities are recognized by users, with 58.5 percent of respondents in a survey saying they'd noticed changes to the search engine. Of those respondents, 65.3 percent said Google's Chinese search engine had improved. Other search engines also saw their share of the search market decline. Yahoo China, which is run by Alibaba.com, saw its share drop 2.9 percentage points to 2.3 percent of the market, while Sohu.com's Sogou search engine fell 1.4 points to 1.8 percent. Â