Comments on: Baidu’s search results turning into pure advertising

By: Baidu innovative game search results | Shanghaied Weblog

Baidu innovative game search results | Shanghaied Weblog — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:29:55 +0000

[...] I am not a big fan of Baidu’s search results, I have to admit they are quite innovative. Their latest innovation is something I have not seen [...]

By: Censorship and Search: Baidu and the Chinese Dilemma | China blog | ChinaGeeks

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:59:45 +0000

[...] that what, exactly, is paid content and what is actual search results on Baidu is unclear. Second, some have suggested that the exodus of Google has led to absurd numbers of paid links being placed in search [...]

By: Drupal developer

Drupal developer — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:49:46 +0000

More and more internet users switched to google from Baidu.

By: marcvanderchijs

marcvanderchijs — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:19:42 +0000

I think it’s partly related to the fact that most users are still much younger than in the rest of the world. The other reason is that in many parts of China there are not many other entertainment options, so people flock to the Internet for that.

By: Beth Evans

Beth Evans — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:44:31 +0000

Just a little surprised to read that Chinese searches are mostly about entertainment. I wonder if this is the result in an age difference in active Internet use between China and other countries?

By: Baidu did not gain any market share after Google’s departure | Shanghaied Weblog

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:00:58 +0000

[...] just read an interesting comment by Sun Zhifeng on my blog post about Baidu’s paid search results. The comment stated that Baidu did not gain [...]

By: Sun Zhifeng

Sun Zhifeng — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:44:58 +0000

early this year, baidu launched a reform which planed to distinguish the paid ads from natural search results by putting them to the right side or with a yellow background. but for some unknown reasons, they didn’t complete the “reform”

i agree with you that without competition or more strict regulations, baidu won’t have too much incentives to change.

advertisers are in real dilemma because you jeopardize the firm by putting all your budget into baidu, but it’s also dangerous now to advertise in g.hk, since it might be blocked anytime the mainland government want

By: Sun Zhifeng

Sun Zhifeng — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:34:09 +0000

according to Alex statistics, it looks like that most g.cn users switched to g.hk and baidu remained the same (http://tinyurl.com/yj5h6du)

this is consistent with my assumptions (actually my experiences as well)-google users demographics are dramatically different from baidu’s and two groups of users don’t switch with each other

By: nausicasia

nausicasia — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:56:49 +0000

Hello, so you may consider paying baidu to appear in the first search results. However natural search appears below all paid results by scrooling down as any other search webs, number of paid results appear according keywords, some with 10 results some other with one or 2. On google you can chose which web you want to see and possible to select only mainland webs.

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