Google vs. Baidu is the heavyweight battle of the Chinese Internet market. And a lot of media coverage is being devoted to analyzing this fight. Based on what’s out there now, Baidu has won round one. The question now is …
Google Desktop began as a simple application that would let you search your computer’s hard drive as quickly as it searches the Internet. And, best of all, it was free. It still is free, but now it supports lots of …
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google has chosen “Egypt as its first outpost in the Arab world because it is the most populous country in the region, with 78 million people and 5.2 million Internet users. Google estimates 50 …
Baidu is the “Google” of China with 51% of the market (according to CNNIC). Awhile back, Google bought a small chunk of the company, before it went public, presumably with the intention of using Baidu as its point of entry …
Google News has added Arabic to its portfolio of 35 localized sites. This site takes a language-specific approach to the news rather than country-specific approach. It’s getting a little crowded at the bottom of each News page…
Adwords is Google’s revenue engine. Advertisers pay to be included on Google’s search engine results page as well as on targeted Web sites that host Google ads, ranging from personal blogs to local and topical news sites. When the user …
The domain name system (DNS) was built by geeks for geeks. It was never intended to be all that user friendly — and, for many people, it’s not. That’s one reason why search engines have come in handy — because …
Google has added Google News Web sites for Brazil and Portugal. This brings the total of language and country specific News sites to 23, assuming I counted correctly… Today Google also announced the opening of offices in Mexico and Brazil, …
Whenever I travel outside the US I get a kick out of entering “google.com” and seeing what happens. That’s because Google makes use of two behind-the-scenes technologies known as “geolocation” and “content negotiation.” Here is the Web page Google took …
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) just published a survey of the Chinese search engine market. Baidu comes out on top in market share. But Google is more popular among high-end users. And Baidu relies heavily on MP3 search …