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265.com and Google is another hot keyword in my blog. “265.com Google” the keyword kept bringing my blog traffics for more than one year.

What’s amazing story between this two brands. Guess google china really learned a lot from china website like 265.com. I mean both the style and the domain strategy.

That’s why Google has it’s directory page in China, which looks wired for western internet user, and has a short domain www.g.cn.

Every international brand came across localization problems during they first steps in China. Google couldnt by pass all the problems over night or by technology.

Whether Google bought 265.com or not? It doesnt matter. When you look at www.265.com, the search box there will first bring you to google.

That tells everything.

Facebook is hiring staffs for China branch. But I cant find any hints in the lists Facebook Jobs.

A little bird told me this morning that the hiring is real. One ABC ( America Born Chinese ) is leading the project now very secretly. Some said that the one had studied at Harvard with Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO.

Not more aquire will happen now. All rumors in 2007 turned out to be a joke. Guess some chinese SNS companies who had been longing for cash out from Facebook will be very disappointed now.

Maybe, someday that will be aquire again, but no now.

I check the http://www.facebook.com/ and find out that the url been redirected to zh-cn.facebook.com. And the language support has the simplified chinese option ready!

“We are ready!” guess this is what Facebook going to say.

Simplified Chinese is one of the five supported language in Facebook. 

Are you ready?
If you happen to know chinese and know something about SEO, and pretend to be very creative, you should never miss this chinese SEO contest.

Where to go?
Duhugu. They have a chinese name for that, three chinese characteristic, first first one’s chinese pinyin is “du”, second “hu”, and third “gu”. “duhugu” Which means a valley where tiger always pass the river. Yes go to this valley and apply for the contest.

How to contest?
Duhugu. Yes, although the name have interesting chinese meaning, but actually none of the search engines even index a single page about this keyword. It’s clean and clear from the very beginning. What you need to do is optimizing your page targeting “duhugu” in chinese. There is a very important thing for this contest, be creative for your content and respect to all copyright issues.

How long will this contest lasts?
You can continue enhancing your performance before next year’ SES Xiamen. Which means the contest starts from now and will end at may, 2007.

Any interesting stories?
Sure, most of the people believed that “du” is baidu, “hu” is Yahoo, “gu” is google. “duhugu” stands for the “big three” in chinese. Well, maybe ture, Yahoo’s chinese name in pinyin is “yahu“, Google’s chinese name in pinyin is “guge”, and baidu is “baidu“. Yes, why not, and name with a story and can stands for three search engine.

How about the performance so far?
If you index the “duhugu” in chinese at all the above search engines, hundreds of thousands pages are already there, but before the contest, that was 1 weeks ago, nothing!! Yes, many SEO fans had already taken part in this contest.

If you know some chinese and know SEO, come and join it now.