Baidu Beat has done a roundup of the2011 top ten "most active" questions on their ask & answer forum “Baidu Knows” (百度知道, bǎidù zhīdào). The number one thing most Chinese people on Baidu are curious about? Bulls. more ›

Alibaba Group, the e-commerce giant behind Taobao, launched a beta version of it's own search engine, called Etao, last Saturday. The move may be seen as a direct challenge to Baidu, who currently dominate 60% of the search market in China. Described as a "shopping search engine," Etao will also offer a comprehensive search option powered by Microsoft's Bing. With 40% of Alibaba owned by Yahoo, this could be seen as the first big move by foreign investment to fill the hole left by Google.cn's departure. more ›

It's the Monday after G-day and it seems like, despite lecturing the Internet search company from CCTV and its other mouthpieces, China has yet to block it. Phew. Which makes this fun little Internet tool still relevant - it compares searches between Baidu and Google. Apparently, a good 85% of search results are different! Who woulda thought (hint: maybe everyone)? Anyway, I've been amusing myself this morning doing side-by-side searches of controversial terms. You ought to try it too: baigoogledu.com.cn/ more ›

Just a few days after Google first threatened to leave China, this lil' shanzhai site popped up. The title, Goojje is a pun. The jje part of it sounds like "jie jie (姐姐)" or sister, which mirrors how Google's last syllables sound like "ge ge (哥哥)" or brother. Goojje is also a search engine and offers some sort of social networking service and BBS. more ›

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Of no surprise to most people, the Baidu scandal has caused the search engine to lose some of its massive lead over Google in the Chinese market. While the company says its taken steps to correct the problems underscored by a CCTV expose, and U.S. investors are confident that Google won't ever win the race in this country, the numbers are still enough to make Baidu sweat a little. Google's share of the local online ad market rose 4.4% to 27.8% from the prior year. Baidu's rise was smaller, at 2.9% during the same period. Meanwhile, 4Q Internet traffic levels shrunk at Baidu, but gained at Google. Source: Bloomberg more ›