Archive for January, 2009

Baidu Adds Suggestions To Search

Baidu now has search suggestions for a couple of search products, including web search, image search, video search and maybe more. It has suggestions for both English and Chinese language. The suggested search keywords are different in different search products.
Update: MP3 Search has suggestions too.
Source: Tencent

Hello, I’m QQ: QQ Speaks English Now

When we are talking about China’s Internet companies, we will definitely talk Tencent, whose IM software QQ is the most popular IM software in China. At the time I’m writing this post, QQ has over 45m concurrent users online. Based on its QQ software, Tencent generated revenue of USD297 million in the quarter ended on [...]

uWorld Opens Public Beta

Let’s don’t forget there’re virtual world products. uWorld, a local virtual world product, we firstly introduced in 2007, then last mentioned it in May 2008, has just opened public beta test.
virtual World dot CN has a column tracking the development of uWorld.

New 9taps Reader Rocks

This version of Douban’s 9taps reader is a revolution. It’s not about the content in four channels. It’s about how it can help you go through you subscription more smoothly. Douban’s own PR post is misleading by leaning too much towards media angle.
The reason douban dropped a consistent UI is that blog post is different [...]

Microsoft Spring Festival Search, Douban New 9taps

Microsoft Live Search is promoting itself in Chinese market. It just launched a special theme for spring festival search. Here’s the address: 2009.cj.live.com. Interestingly, it’s not linked from the homepage of live search.
It’s mainly like an aggregated portal for spring festival related information, like train tickets. It also included traffic information on live map, similar [...]

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