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I know, you’re going to say : taobao is the equivalent of ebay, while baidu is a search engine, so why the hell should they compete?
Well, let me explain some facts :

Taobao does not want Baidu on its site

How do I know that? Actually by reading the robots.txt file, which is the file that tells search engines what they are allowed to index, and what they are NOT allowed to. Taobao tells baidu not to index a single page of its website with this command :

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /
User-agent: baiduspider
Disallow: /

check it your self : http://www.taobao.com/robots.txt

you want to know what google services are available in china, or which google services are blocked, very easy.

google has a day to day function for that, you just have to follow this link at google mailand china services

Well, you can use this service until this page is blocked too :)

Can google have the same traffic in hong kong than in china?

It seems so. When you check alexa traffic, it seems that all of the visitors google had in china followed mountain view search engine to its new hong kong location.

Chinese Like Google

Surprising? a bit i would say, i would have thaught that they would lose 10% to 30% of their visitors, because there are few more clicks to reach the actual hong kong Chinese home page.

did you ever notice that google trends is not showing stats for google! that is weird don't you think, besides you can grab these stats on other websites like alexa, so why don't they show them?
do you have an idea? please share your thaughts in the comments below.
 

it appears that google is seriously closing down in china. executives there said there is 99.9% chance to pull out.

the search engine scene is going to be deeply changed here :

1) baidu is definitly going to gain market shares.

2) bing is probably going to gain market share too, because when chinese people look for something outside of china, they don't use baidu, they use google, because it's foreigner too.... i guess now they will use bing a bit more. specially because microsoft made it clear they were not leaving china.

Ok, I know what they said. They protect human rights and other stuff. But, how come they do it suddenly, they had to follow the government rules since the beginning right, so why do they complain now?

Oh I know, some accounts were hacked! Come on, it’s GOOGLE, every day thousands (or more) of people are trying to hack accounts. It’s bad, but it’s not new.

I have another theory, and I would bet a lot that I am right. Google, the giant, has a weakness that was forgotten, but that the Chinese environment cruelly reminds them.

THEY HAVE ONLY ONE SOURCE OF REVENUES: Adwords. if you attack this one, you attack the heart of their revenue sources.

Bye Bye website, Hello website. in China you live knowing that at anytime a website can disappear (i mean, get blocked), and another one can appear, released by the chinese authorities.

Today, we have a good news, you've been crying for months about that document you just finished typing when google docs was blocked, well, you can have it back now, google docs is unblocked in china.

Is it linked with the fact that google is threatening to close down in china ... who knows!

Still, stop crying, your google docs are back in china, you can re-start working again, you have no more excuses ;o)

Internet statistics of the world in video for 2009, nice work done by jess3 :

There are 192 millions sold domain names in the world. which means 15 millions more than at the end of 2008.
so we will probably reach the 200 millions this year in 2010.

the .com is the king of domain names, with 84 millions, but the contry extensions are increasing faster.

The chinese domain names for example, the famous .cn is increasing by 467% in one year!

The first european one is the german one (.de) with 13 millinos, the french one has 1.6 millions.

The .com has increased by 7% in 2009.

The first domain name ever sold was symbolics.com, the 15 march 1985.

In the world of web design, many companies cheat and sell you a template, making you think they made the design. A template is a readymade design that you can install on your CMS (Content Management System) or just any website.

Examples of templates here : www.templatemonster.com

Now if I always thought it's good inspiration, I always thought that they are also used to cheat, and thus in several manners :