http://www.chinawebradar.com/413/baidu-manipulates-search-rank.html Next Generation Web in China Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:51:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.chinawebradar.com/413/baidu-manipulates-search-rank.html/comment-page-1#comment-3881 Last week in China - Baidu Censors Competition, Yahoo Wins and More eBay Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:08:43 +0000 http://www.chinawebradar.com/413/baidu-manipulates-search-rank.html#comment-3881 [...] According to a leaked email from Peter Wang, Brand Director of Baidu, it seems the biggest search engine in China likes to adjust rankings. From the China Web 2.0 Review In the email [to Robin Lee, CEO of Baidu], Peter asked for the approval to change the rank of Sina and Sohu [2 major Chinese web portals]. He said Baidu had decreased the rank of Sina previously since Sina published many negative reports on Baidu. So in many search results, the results from Sohu were ranked higher than those of Sina. But recently Sohu is not friendly to Baidu. So he, also requested by an editor of Sina, thought it was time to renew the rank of Sina and decrease that of Sohu. [...] [...] According to a leaked email from Peter Wang, Brand Director of Baidu, it seems the biggest search engine in China likes to adjust rankings. From the China Web 2.0 Review In the email [to Robin Lee, CEO of Baidu], Peter asked for the approval to change the rank of Sina and Sohu [2 major Chinese web portals]. He said Baidu had decreased the rank of Sina previously since Sina published many negative reports on Baidu. So in many search results, the results from Sohu were ranked higher than those of Sina. But recently Sohu is not friendly to Baidu. So he, also requested by an editor of Sina, thought it was time to renew the rank of Sina and decrease that of Sohu. [...]

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