Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'china'

In mid-January Google said they are leaving China after being part of a hack by the Chinese government. Since then, Google has been trying to work out details with the Chinese government to stay. Part of Google's requirements to stay...

Posted on March 15, 2010 8:11 AM

If you happen to visit Google China, you may notice that there are people who are placing flowers and candles by their Google sign outside the building. There are actually a ton of pictures of this being done inside and...

Posted on January 14, 2010 8:04 AM

Last night, Google made huge news announcing that they will no longer censor their Chinese search engine, Google.cn after finding out the Chinese government may have made attempts to hack into Gmail to obtain information on Chinese activists. Google wrote:...

Posted on January 13, 2010 8:08 AM

There are reports from Google Docs Help forum that people in China cannot access their Google Docs or even FeedBurner on feedburner.google.com. Here is what the China Google Docs user said: Google Docs appears to be blocked here in China....

Posted on March 13, 2009 8:59 AM

Baidu, the Google of China, reportedly has received approval from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) to become a domain name registrar. Why do we care? Remember when Google became a domain registrar in January 2005? We, SEOs, did...

Posted on January 18, 2008 7:28 AM

There's a lot of news coverage on the imprisonment of pro-Democracy journalist Shi Tao and discussion in the forums. Search Engine Land writes that Jerry Yang has apologized to the family of Tao and says that they will support them...

Posted on November 7, 2007 10:18 AM

To make things simple for the folks in China, Google has purchased g.cn, the shortest domain name I've ever seen... in 2003. But they just activated it now and it already seems all set up for the Chinese populous. Since...

Posted on November 5, 2007 9:28 AM

Bill at WebmasterWorld started a thread saying Google launched a Chinese Directory at http://daohang.google.cn/. He adds that the directory "has a lot of AJAX that will let you move sections around so that you can customize the layout." Here is...

Posted on March 12, 2007 8:34 AM

Bill at WebmasterWorld notifies us that Google launched a Chinese version of Google Maps. You can see Google Maps China at http://ditu.google.cn/. I assume ditu is maps in Chinese? :-) Based on the thread, it appears that: City detail is...

Posted on February 13, 2007 7:46 AM