If you want to know how seriously any public company takes mobile, then take a look at the annual/quarterly reports. While top Chinese retailers, banks and internet companies are keen to share their mobile success with their investors, their US equivalents are often shy to reveal their numbers… especially the biggest US retailers. While researching a series of in-depth m-commerce reports for ClickZ Intelligence, I needed to establish which of the world’s biggest countries are really making headway with mobile.
Baidu, the leading Chinese search engine, is the third most popular search engine in the world, despite being mostly concentrated in and around China.
By optimizing your website for Google, you could be sabotaging your site for Baidu in China and Yandex in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Here in the States we have popular search engine by the name of Google. In China, the dominant search engine is Baidu.
On October 29th, Baidu, China’s largest search engine, announced their Q3 earnings. In their earnings report, they declared that they had a “very strong quarter,” mostly as a result of mobile, which provided 36% of the total revenue, up from 30% in the previous quarter. Mobile Eclipses the Desktop Most newsworthy in the earnings report is that for the first time ever, mobile accounted for more traffic than desktop
Of all the search engines in the world, one of the most intriguing is Duck Duck Go. While the search engine hasn’t been able to topple heavyweights like Google or Bing, Duck Duck Go (DDG) has been in the news as of late, thanks to it being the latest US online service to be blocked by China. But, what exactly prompted this ban?
Last month Baidu, the dominant search engine in China, announced they launched a Portuguese version of their search engine in Brazil. (You might notice they have opted for a subdomain on their .COM, instead of the .COM.BR Brazilian TLD that Google uses, but that’s for another post.) Brazil might seem like an odd first expansion choice for a search engine that is primarily focused on the Chinese language, but when you dig into the details, it actually quite logical.
The cat and mouse game between China, Google and the internet continues. Today and tomorrow are the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Fearing another anti-government uprising, every year at this time China cracks down on its citizens’ ability to access information about the..
Just like every region in the world, China users have very specific online browsing habits. Ignoring these idiosyncrasies be very costly, particularly if you are running an online store. Adapting your company’s strategy to your target market’s behavior is imperative to succeeded online
The Chinese economy stands as the second largest in the world, behind the USA. Much of the world’s manufacturing is Chinese, and there is a massive, and quickly growing, consumer market place within the country that is beginning to enjoy the trappings of the country’s economic growth