Google makes move into Chinese digital music
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Although it is not confirmed, Google has entered into a joint venture with Top100.cn, which will allow Internet users to download licensed music for free.
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Arts & entertainment: Looking for that obscure James Brown B-side? Or some Chinese hip-hop? You need our guide to sourcing all sorts of music online
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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
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(InfoWorld) - Google is testing a book search service in China that allows users to search and read the full text of books. The trial Web site, which went live on March 2, is the latest addition to Google's Chinese search engine, Google.cn. As part of ongoing efforts toÂ attract more Chinese Internet usersÂ to Google.cn, which limits search results to satisfy Chinese government censors, the company has beenÂ adding more features to the site. A posting on Google's Chinese blog said the company has so far scanned 1 millionÂ books from around the world into its index, but relatively few Chinese books are available. "In China, this mission has just started, we still have a long way to go," the blog said. In addition to allowing users to search the text of indexed books, the book-search service provides links to online book sellers that sell the book. Users can also use Google's revamped and recently relaunched Chinese map service to find the address and location of nearby bookstores, the blog said. In the future, the search engine may also be able to tell users if a bookstore has a particular book in stock, it said. Google has been working on the Chinese book search service since the middle of last year. At that time, Chinese media reported the company had struck deals with four publishers to scan their books for the search engine.
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Chinese Web search leader Baidu.com  Inc. has set up a partnership with popular Chinese-language  record label Rock Music Groupto provide an online music  streaming service.
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Google Inc.  and Baidu.com  Inc. , its biggest rival in China, are exploring  similar options to expand their online video services in the  world's fourth-largest economy.
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Court finds that Google China began using name "Gu Ge" before other company registered it.
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Chinese Web search leader Baidu is working with Taiwan's Rock Music Group to offer streaming music services.
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By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 31--Google and major music label EMI have reached an agreement that will allow YouTube users to watch music videos from EMI artists and include clips from them in videos they create, the companies said today.
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Google and SINA team up in a Chinese search partnership.
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The dominance of Google in the search space is almost written in stone in North America, but there may yet be some populous spots in the world where the market is wide open. Now its main Chinese competitor has launched a new assault.
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Google is working with Dow Jones, CondÃ© Nast, Sony BMG Music and other large content companies to syndicate their video content on other Web sites.
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Just in time for Halloween, Google&#39;s YouTube became available again in China Wednesday, two weeks after it was blocked.Although Chinese Internet regulators don&#39;t comment on why sites are blocked,&#160;YouTube&#39;s blocking&#160;seemed to be tied one or two events: the 17th Communist Party Congress, the Chinese Communist Party&#39;s most important meeting, held every five years; and the launching of YouTube&#39;s traditional language site in Taiwan, both during the same week in the middle of this month. The YouTube Taiwan site is also available in China.However, while YouTube can be viewed again, Blogspot is once again unavailable, one of several sites that see-saw between being allowed or prohibited. Although attempts to reach Blogspot&#39;s homepage rerouted to Blogger.com&#39;s simplified Chinese homepage, neither Blogspot owner Google&#39;s official blog nor the infamous Chinabounder blog -- which features the sexual exploits and political rantings of a foreign English teacher in Shanghai -- could be reached.Blocked throughout the recent changes&#160;is the English-language site of Wikipedia. Its Chinese-language site is&#160;almost always unavailable&#160;here.China regularly blocks access to Web sites that it finds objectionable, including those dealing with politically sensitive subjects such as the Falun Gong religious cult and independence for Taiwan and Tibet, along with some pornographic sites.&#160;
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Search giant tries to make more headway in China, where it faces a local rival.
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In high-tech Japan, an antiques dealer pioneers a new way to listen to digital music -- by piping the tunes through tube radios. Nobuyuki Hayashi reports from Tokyo.
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Never mind Baidu, look at Yahoo! A Chinese court last month found Yahoo! China liable for copyright infringement by deep-linking to songs. Both Yahoo! and Baidu, China's largest search engine, provide search tools for finding music, most of which is unlicensed.â¦
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A new interface and expanded file format support are among the new development tools for Google's mobile phone operating system.