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 [...]

China Telecom opens arms to Microsoft Live Search

In our previous post, we reported that 114 web search is powered by Baidu. Yesterday, it turned out they finally go with Microsoft. Fortunately we made a screen shot. So you can compared with the current search result. They are different.
Reported by Sina, Microsoft will pay China Telecom no less than 21 million USD from [...]

Should Microsoft Complain of Interface Theft by Sina?

I just read a post in Techcrunch which cited a blog post by Garry Wiseman, who criticize Sina, a China’s portal site, to “steal design and graphics” of Microsoft Live Expo. To quote some of his words:
[Sina.com] had not only lifted our previous user interface’s look & feel, but also directly copied some of our [...]