Baidu releases beta game data search. Now it supports for 6 online games. In future, it will support 400+ online games and thousands of flash games and single player games. Users may publish their (or sneak theirs’) articles to the search.
Just another product to ‘create’ content but not only index.
The multiplayer online game market in China is about 1.5 billion dollars this year.
Baidu issues several accessible pages of its service, such as news, Zhidao, Baike. Yes, only some friendly navigation pages for blind, it doesn’t modify its content pages at all. So in my opinion, Baidu is just show-off and it doesn’t want to get sand-blind users.
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Baidu publishes its book search at http://book.baidu.com/. You can search many Chinese books from several online book stores. But there is only little info about the book, such as author, press, content menu and order links, you can’t read any page or comment it at Baidu. So it can’t compete with Google book search and douban.com (en), the leader book search in China. Just an aggregate search engine of several online book stores I think, and you can’t compare the price between the stores, only one order link of one book. So bad.
Now, when you visit Baidu Japan in China, you will get a page which likes banned by GFW. But it’s not the truth. You could run ‘tracert’ command and found it’s different from other banned sites. It means that Baidu Japan blocks China visitors itself. I think it’s for China’s special pornographic forbidden war. Yes, there is no content classification system in China.
Baidu publishes a video index protocol to crawl video on Internet. It’s similar to Sitemaps protocol but more advanced. Length of video, tags, description could also include in XML file.
Baidu has already issue news index protocol before to promote its news search.
Robin Lee, CEO of Baidu, posted a blog yesterday asked Baidu users what E-mail service they want to have. Many Baidu users leaved there comments and advice on his page. It was regarded as Baidu will offer E-mail service. http://mail.baidu.com was for Baidu Company E-mail before, but now it can’t be opened. Lee says E-mail service should has unlimited storage and convenient use.
Now Tencent (QQ) is testing its new E-mail service behind closed doors; it is shown that Baidu, the top search engine in China, and Tencent, which has top instant messenger in China, will have a hot competition this year.
Youku now becomes the fifth top cooperator of Baidu after Alibaba, Dangdang, CNNIC and Huicong. A related link of keywords will be shown on the sidebar that mentions users to find videos about the keyword.
Youku is a popular video share site in China similar to Youtube in U.S. And Baidu provides video search early this year to compete with Sina video blog service. Otherwise, Myspace China will be published soon to compete the video share market.
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.