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May08

Online retail in China expected to hit $360 billion by 2015

Posted in: May 2012, Blogs

Online retail in China expected to hit $360 billion by 2015

At the beginning of this year, we were mentioning that 2012 is the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac and its set to be a very successful year for international e-commerce. Now a couple of months later, a report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) announced that China’s Internet commerce market is expected to triple its value over the next three years reaching $360 billion.

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Mar13

Today's Top Stories

Posted in: News, March 2012

Today's Top Stories

 

San Francisco-based blogging and sharing platform Posterous announced yesterday on its blog that has been acquired by Twitter adding that Twitter is interested mostly in the people, not the product. Posterous engineers, product managers will join the Twitter team and the Posterous space will remain up and running “without disruption” and  users given ample notice if any changes are made to the service. Read more

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Oct28

How to avoid the Seven Circles of Baidu Hell

Posted in: Blogs, October 2011

Keeping your site in Baidu’s index and out of the fire

How to avoid the Seven Circles of Baidu Hell
Due to the power of the Chinese economy, it's one of only a few markets Google hasn't made a credible impact on. Baidu's dominance in the Chinese Market is something to be feared, especially with the politically fuelled reactive de-listings that can occur. Due to Google's international appeal, many western people (including SEO professionals) believe that similar practices will lead to success in China. Most eventually realise that this is not the case and will commit a deadly sin of Baidu, and will be cast down into the depths of Chinese SEO hell!

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Sep09

Baidu Removes British Universities from its Index Following Bing Deal.

Posted in: Blogs, September 2011

Baidu Removes British Universities from its Index Following Bing Deal.
If you're up to date on SEO news, it's of little doubt you've heard Baidu and Bing's deal to serve Microsoft's indexed results on the leading Chinese search engine. English search terms entered in to Baidu were set to return the top 3 results from Bing's index and competitively position them against entries from Baidu's regional index. Since Baidu boasts a 70-80% dominance of the search market in China it's easy to understand Microsoft's methodology of increasing its foothold in the market. And sure enough this announced functionality has been slowly integrated into Baidu's SERPs since the announcement. You can read more about the deal that took place in July here.
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Jan12

Baidu answers more search queries than any other search engine in any other market.

Posted in: News, January 2011

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Robin Li, the CEO of Baidu, gave a rare speech at the Web 2.0 Summit in mid-November, giving some sought-after insight into the success and progress of China's search giant.

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Dec15

Baidu Launches Online Shopping Mall

Posted in: News, December 2010

Chinese search engine Baidu has launched an online shopping mall in China.Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce giant, teamed up with Baidu to develop Lekutian (meaning ‘Happy Cool Day’), which will compete with the established Alibaba Group – the biggest online retail network in China, currently holding a 75% market share (Analysys International).

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