Seen that? – No to Google’s Chinese name Guge
No to Google’s Chinese name Guge The Search Engine Weblog
No to google's Chinese name "guge" is the cry of a group of chinese fans of google. They created a site called noguge.com which is aimed as collecting suggestions on alternative names. Personally, the first time I heard about the name "guge" was about a few weeks ago. My first impression about this is that it sounds like a 2 year old struggling to pronounce the word "google" and ending up [...] Read More
HP preloads Baidu for Chinese Market The Search Engine Weblog
The number 1 chinese search engine Baidu has struck a deal with HP to pre-load its search engine to all HP machines for China starting Oct 2006. Good for Baidu, bad for Google. Google however had a similar deal with Dell. So where's yahoo and msn? They shouldn't discount China in their plans as China is the main battle ground in Asia due to the sheer number of people in [...] Read More
Google’s Recent PageRank Penalties The Search Engine Weblog
You might be wondering why the sudden drop in PR for a lot of the websites out there. This drop is the most serious PageRank Penalty I've seen so far. The sites that are mainly affected are the ones that are selling links. Matt Cutts has been vocal about their opinion about paid links and thus now, it seems that they've finally updated their algorithms and put penalties on such [...] Read More
Where Chinese History Comes Alive Hidden Travel Gems
Those of you whoa re frequent readers of this blog know that I am a (big) fan of Time's China Blog. Perhaps I am living vicariously through the blog's writers, who have the enviable task of, well, hanging out in China and writing about it. (I know there is more to it than that. I'm sure there are ulcer inducing deadlines and censorship to deal with.) The latest place profiled [...] Read More
New Chinese Technology Blogs Launched Creative Weblogging
Here at Creative Weblogging you will find a global network of blogs. There are sites written in English, and also in German, French, even a bit of Spanish now and then. You will also find sites in a language spoken by over 1 billion people — Chinese. So, allow me to introduce two new Chinese technology blogs launched so far this year: GeekerVision is a technology image and video blog. Geeker is [...] Read More
