Nowadays, when China users enter Google.com, they will be redirected automatically to Google.cn, the censorable edition of Google search engine. Maybe, setting the bad edition default is a prerequisite to get license from China government, guessed by Chinese netizens.

From setting company in Beijing, Google China continued to acquire license as a business Internet content provider (ICP). But there is a long way to achievement, perhaps the government needs Google censor all information in its services and helps the Party checkup the Internet in China.

Google China does its possible to satisfy the government without doing evil, and, maybe you couldn’t get any results with searching “People” in Google.cn last Saturday.

Baidu now release its Japanese search engine to compete with Google and Yahoo! in the largest search market in Asia. Yesterday Baidu.co.jp was transferred to Baidu judged by Japan intellectual property arbitration center, which registered maliciously by a Chinese company in Japan.

Robin Lee, the CEO of Baidu says that Japanese search engine is locally but not internationally. Now Google and Yahoo! hold almost all market averagely in Japan.

Baidu official blog notices that Baidu is going to release rankings of China cosmetics brands at Shanghai Four Seasons Hotel this Thursday. A serials of top brands lists will be published, such as most concerned high-end cosmetics brands by Chinese netizens, most attention shampoo brands in China ,etc. It’s about 15 rankings list totally to announce.

Last month, Baidu released home appliances brands list to start its brands lists of industry. It reflects what brands are concerned by Chinese netizens in 2006. And more reports of other industry will be published for the future.

Sogou began to test its personalized homepage, a new graduate of its lab. (Via CWR) You could extend or roll up each module and drag to re order it easily. A directory of websites is fixed on the left so it isn’t configuring completely.

China Web2.0 Review finds that you can not even add your own RSS to this service. Maybe it is only used to give you a optional home page of Sohu, owner of Sogou.

Google China launched localization zeitgeist service ReBang(热榜), which means hottest lists in Chinese. (Via Keso) Google trends images are also shown in ReBang pages. You may find some third parties list here, such as top music and top movies. An official forum is opened incidentally.

Sina technology channel mentions that Google China will open a research lab in Shanghai to attract fresh graduates. This will help Google to improve its technique for the fierce competition.

The new lab will mainly research online advertisement and ameliorate its ads system, which contains Adwords and Adsense.

China IntelliConsulting Corporation has just released its latest survey findings on China paid search advertisers.The survey interviewed, either by email or by phone, 555 respondents out of a sampling pool of 4684 active advertisers representing an estimated 4% of total paid search advertisers in China.

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Information from HotDMA shows that Baidu and Google lead the business search market in East China.(via iResearch)

IResearch says that Baidu gets 45.9% market share and Google gets 33.4% followed. The third one is Yahoo China, shares about 12.5% of the market.