Youdao Launches Product Search

Netease’s search engine, Youdao, launched product search today. It’s called Youdao Gouwu. It has been under testing for a couple of weeks on a temporary domain.
The features are straightforward. You search for some product. It shows you available products from online shops. Not sure how the results are ranked. You can compare price. When [...]

China SNS Roundup: Sina, Netease, 51.com, Yiqi.com

Sina and Netease adds SNS games: What are the hottest features of China’s SNS? The answer is “Friends for Sale”. Last week, both Sina and Netease add “friends for sale” function into their blog/space service. Friends For Sale was first introduced to China by Kaixin001.com, together with Parking War. Leveraging on these two apps, Kaixin001.com [...]

Netease Updates Homepage To Promote Home-Made Search Engine, Yodao Launches RSS Reader

CnBeta is reporting that Netease has a new homepage. The change is Yodao becomes the official search engine of the site. We have reported the replacement of the search engine in July, but it’s common to launch multiple times in nowadays.
Over on Yodao’s homepage, it claims to be out of beta. And now it [...]

Roundup: Yodao, Feedsky, Mofile and Hubotv

Netease officially launched Yodao search: As we reported early, Netease replaced seach service in its 163.com web portal with its proprietary Yodao search engine, previously its search service is powered by Google. In Yodao’s website, we can know Yodao now offers web search, image search and blog search service. However, there is also a news [...]

Netease Tests Digg in News

Digg, as a community driven social news model, has been copied by many startups globally, but it has never reach its tipping point in China, partly because traditional news portal website still dominate online news market. So Netease’s recent initiative to incorporate digg model in some of its news content may make digg more popular [...]

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