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Chinese site to steer users to legit music source

A music service that plans to offer free song downloads said Monday that China's largest search engine will send users to the service in a deal that could cut online music piracy.

Baidu 3Q profit climbs 42 percent, outlook soft

Baidu Inc., which runs China's leading Internet search engine, said Monday that its third-quarter profit jumped 42 percent as revenue from online marketing services climbed.

Baidu CEO draws big crowd in Google's backyard

The billionaire founder of a popular search engine drew a big crowd Wednesday at Stanford University — and it wasn't one of the guys that started Google Inc. just a few miles from the campus they once attended.

Baidu posts higher 1Q profit, revenue

Baidu Inc., which runs China's most popular search engine, said Monday its first-quarter profit grew, boosted by higher online marketing revenue.

China's Baidu.com fights to rescue reputation

Baidu.com has been the star of China's Internet world. But now the search engine dubbed "China's Google" is scrambling to rescue its reputation after state TV accused it of letting unlicensed suppliers of medical products pay for higher rankings on its results page — without alerting users.

Baidu to buy back American Depositary shares

Chinese language Internet search provider Baidu.com Inc. said Monday its board approved a plan to buy back up to $200 million of its American Depositary Shares by the end of 2009.

Industry Group Sues China Search Engine

China's top search engine, Baidu.com, has been sued by a music industry group in China over an alleged copyright violation, according to a statement released by the Music Copyright Society of China.

Baidu Sued Over Music Copyrights

China's top search engine Baidu.com has been sued by a local music industry group for alleged copyright violation, the second recent similar action from the industry, the group said.

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Push for 'instant-on' web search
Source: BBC News

A company that provides "instant-on" computing will bring "instant search" to the PC for the first time.

China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites
Source: torrentfreak.com

China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently however, several reports came in from China, indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked.

Google Launches Music Downloading Service
Source: Reuters

The service poses a challenge to Baidu.com Inc, which dominates China's Internet search market but has, along with other Chinese search providers, faced lawsuits charging that it facilitates copyright violations through downloads of unlicensed music.

Google on the top of the world search

Google deserve to be called "Big G" or "Search Engine Giant" or any other similar phrase out there. With 37 billion searches in August, the market leader executed half of all search request around the world .

Wikipedia Founder Will Not Bow To Chinese Like Google/Yahoo
Source: CEO Smack

Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales has indicated that he will try to talk with China about their decision to block his user-updated online encyclopedia.

Music labels lose MP3 search case
Source: BBC News

China's leading web search engine has been cleared of copyright infringement by a Beijing court. Baidu.com faced a lawsuit from music companies after posting links to sites offering illegal music downloads.

Google on the Ropes in China
Source: redherring.com

New statistics show that Google is continuing to loose ground to Baidu in China. Google has always struggled in China, first with the censorship requirements placed on them and now it appears that things such as speed of service are also affecting their market share.

China and the internet | The party, the people and the power of cyber-talk | Economist.com
Source: The Economist

How holes are appearing in the Great Firewall of China

Is Nokia making the right moves in China?

Much praise for the Finnish mobile phone maker in the China Netinvestor (heads up by Virtual China) but I do have some doubts on its alliance with Baidu to set up mobile search. All those alliances are non-exclusive so might only have limited impact on the future direction.

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