Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'china'

Baidu to Become Domain Registrar, Just Like Google?

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...

US Rebukes Yahoo over Chinese Reporter's Imprisonment

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...

Google Buys g.cn, Shortest Domain Name in China

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...

Google's Chinese Directory Sports Features & AJAX

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...

Google Maps China Now Live

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...


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