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)
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.
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.
Google China released first version of its Chinese input method editor, based on phonetic regulation of Chinese words (Chinese Pinyin). The rumor of it has spread several months on the Internet. And Sogou IME was released when Chinese netizens discussing Google’s.
Google’s IME has some innovative features, such as depositing users’ personal phrase on Google’s server and synchronize it between different computers. You may also find popular words on Internet would be typed easily and accurately. This may help Google to retain users. But Sogou’s IME has many users under its frequent updating.
The IME needs Windows 2000 or higher edition to run and a web browser to show search pages, a small feature to increase its search user number.
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.
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.
