Big Brother’s Internet

Whether it is for spreading propaganda to a nation’s populous – or suppressing it – governments have always sought to control new forms of media. From the printing press to the radio and the television, there has been the presence of political powers....

Google Offers Free Music in China

Looking for free music online in China just got a lot easier – and its legal! Google recently launched Music Onebox over at Google.cn to try and grab a larger percentage of the search market over in China according to the LA Times. Currently Baidu is the Chinese...

China Caught Redirecting Google and Yahoo Traffic to Baidu

According to TechCrunch today it appears that China is hijacking traffic that is meant to go to Yahoo and Google and transfering it to Baidu.com; China’s banner search engine rife with legally (in China) ripped music and thick with communist party censorship....

Google Losing Ground in China

In most places Google dominates search over rivals Yahoo and MSN, however, in China it’s a different story. Google has been investing heavily in search for China, however, despite this; Baidu.com is up 7.6% this year reaching a 69.5% market share in Beijing, Shanghai,...

More About Baidu – The 4th Most Visited Site in the World

Many of you may have never heard of Baidu and that is expected since over 95% of its users are from China. I knew a little about the company but frankly since I could not read Chinese there was little for me to glean from their interface at www.baidu.com. Today,...