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Alading: Baidu Wants Your Structured Data

Baidu has launched its Alading platform, which is to track the dark web. There’s lots of data on the web, which is not in form of web page, mainly those dynamic content. Users usually get those content by submitting a form query. Search engine sometimes can index dynamic links to retrieve some data, but there’s [...]

Google News Chinese Version Adds Subchannel

Google News Chinese Version has just released subchannel, reported Google China Blog. This is the first step in all its language versions. For example, Sci/Tech channel now includes two subchannel, digital and science. Basically all channels have around three subchannels now.
It now looks much like the competitor, Baidu news. It’s single-column, while the international version [...]

Baidu Tieba Adds Private Group

Baidu has just launched a new feature, called club, for its popular Tieba. Club is much like a public tieba. But the master of the club has more privacy controls. In Baidu’s words, club is to provide a more private communication place for special interest groups, but it’s not going to affect or compete with [...]

Baidu Personalized Startpage

Baidu’s startpage is now available at my.baidu.com. The domain should be available since around April 1st. Certainly it’s not an April fool. Before that, a lot of us have seen an earlier version through a public IP address.
In one word, it’s just like iGoogle or any other startpage services. You can add service widgets or [...]

Douban To Add Book Series

Douban, the book reviews and recommendation service, has just announced a new expansion of book attributes, series. Via Wikipedia, a book series is a sequence of books with certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group.
Book series look like a public and collaborative version of another more private feature — [...]

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