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As part of its expansion plans, Microsoft is searching for a Chinese partner to boost its Bing market share in China's Internet search market.

A Chinese search partner for Bing?

According to its chief executive for Greater China Simon Leung, the computer giant aims to grow its presence in the country and invest over 100 million dollars into Chinese companies.

Google has acquired visual search engine and eCommerce site Like.com for approximately 100 million dollars.

Google buys visual search Like.com

Founded in 2004, Like.com is a visual search engine that uses computer vision and machine learning technology to help users match shoes, clothes, jewelry and decor online and purchase them from retailers.

China's largest Internet company Tencent acquires a Chinese social networking development company. The deal was reportedly worth more than 60 million dollars.

According to its Webmaster Central Blog, Google made a major update on its search algorithm: the search engine can now list more search results from the same domain within the top 10 Search Engine Results Page (SERP).

China's eCommerce market has increased by 60% in Q1 compared to the first 6 months of 2009.

China's eCommerce market is soaring

The amount of online transactions, including B2C, B2B and C2C transactions reached 2,250 billion yuan (331 billion dollars) in Q1. In 2009, the trade volume of eCommerce in China surpassed 3.6 trillion yuan (530 billion dollars).

About .CN domain names

.CN is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for mainland China. It is currently the sixth most common top-level domain, after .com, .de, .net, .uk and .org with over 7.62 million registrations.

Second-level domain names include generic second-level domains such as com.cn, edu.cn and gov.cn, and second-level domains of provinces such as bj.cn, hn.cn and sh.cn.

Here is a list of popular search engines in China:

• Baidu

World's largest mobile phone operator China Mobile and China's official news agency Xinhua agreed yesterday to set up a search engine.

China Mobile and Xinhua enter China’s search market

The joint venture will focus on creating a search engine for the Chinese market. 

In this article, I'll strive to explain you how search engines like Google interpret non-latin characters. As I'm familiar with China, I'll only focus on simplified Chinese.

Do you know that Gmail uses your information to display ads promoting your competitors? I know that can sound weird but let me explain about what I discovered.

Gmail displays ads relevant to your interests

A prospect used his personal email address to send me a message. He was asking me for more information about our web design and SEO services. Nothing amazing here. Yet, when I read his message in my Gmail inbox, I saw ads related to LED companies.