Google China Blog says they released a new feature of Chinese search that offers related topics when you search info about cars.
It’s used “more:” expression like search refinements of Google Custom Search Engine. And when you try other keywords without car names, then plus “more:”, you will also find related topics but about cars info. Hah, funny. (Via GSeeker)
Search engine from Tencent SOSO releases its answer service today. SOSO webpage search cooperates with Google. Now SOSO has several percents market share, most of its search request was from QQ, the largest IM software in China.
SOSO ask is going to compete with Baidu Zhidao, the leader of answer service in China.
Update:Tencent bought wenwen.com for 10k dollars.
From I knew Google, it cached pages can’t be shown in China because of the Internet censorship. Even Google.cn, you can not visit cached pages either. But today, when you search at Google.cn, you may find that ‘Cached’ links were disappeared. GSeeker says that Google China is going to upgrade its cached pages service, in order to make it available.
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.
See more at CWRBlog
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.
A price-compare search is published by Yahoo! China. You may find goods and product news you want. But after you use it, you will find that is nearly a site search, all goods are from Taobao.com the largest C2C website in China, which also is a website of Alibaba as Yahoo! China.
Product news is provided by some professional websites in China, it looks like a custom search engine of webpage search.
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.
Now when you vista g.cn, you will redirect to http://www.google.cn/. Wow, the shortest domain for Google. Hey, wait, is it Google’s? As far as know single letter with dot cn domains haven’t been open for register. So I check the whois info of g.cn (CNNIC official whois search service), it shows the owner named Huang Jian. He registers it at eName, a close partner of CNNIC, governor of China’s domains.
OK. It’s nearly clear that there is a traffic hijack for Google China. There are lots of Chinese netizens believe that Google has got g.cn as a fault news said. In fact, a year ago, when Google set company in Beijing, it paid one million dollar for google.com.cn and google.cn.
But, when you search the whois here, you may find there is one item more, “Registrant Organization: 北京刘元和君咨询有限公司” (Jan Liu & Associates), the attorney for Google’s case of googel.com.cn and googel.cn. Has Google really got g.cn? I think Google China will announce it soon.
PS. several single letter dot cn domains are for domain parking now.