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China Internet Conference 2007

1, They dont speak English
I can still remember that there were two English holding pages for China Internet Conference at 2005 and 2006. I still keep the link here. But the link is dead and there isnt any English holding page for China Internet Conference 2007. I know Mr Huang Chengqing is always looking forward to expand the brand of China Internet Conference, but I dont think the organization that runs the event really understand his idea. Although the chinese website and the event looks more fancy this year, there are just a few English words there. Yes, they dont speak english on the website. Or they just dont care.  

2. Search Engines say alike
The search engines are those I care during the China Internet Conference. From Dr Li Kaifu of Google China to Dr Charles Chang of Sohu, both believe that they care the people, the users. Agree! All the business and technology development should be user-oriented, better result for searchers and better turn out for advertisers. We havent heard anything from the NO.1 about this, very likely they will talk about better ADs, just the ADs itself, and nothing to do with user.

3. Mobile! Mobile! Mobile!
We just cant wait any longer to welcome the mobile era for internet. We truely believe that all the handhold eletronic devices will get on wap in the future, or the 3G. So everyone is talking about mobile applicaiton in China Internet Conference 2007.

More in Chinese

To be continued.

Baidu’s lay off action was revealed recently by some medias in China.

After some mouth battles with medias like sohu, it looks like this issue will be make up by pro pr.

But some ex-employees of Baidu started to blog some inside information. Some even owned baidu’s stock option. Sure the option gone with the wind after the lay off.

Why a normal lay off can cause such reaction? Rumor said that more than one million dollar options gone away after that. Rumor also said this lay off action was a sudden and rush one, they didnt even have a chance or enough time to feed back. Well, it looks strange. A mature company will never implement lay-off in this way.

Baidu was named as the Best Employer of 2005 by CCTV. But this “Blog Gate” has the possibility to ruin this reputation. Articles from those blogs attracted a massive traffic at past days, and the influence was still growing, more and more complaints are coming soon.

Blog Gate to be continued.

Yes, They came back as what they promised.

This early morning, I rechecked those 3 chinese Search Engines, Sina’s Iask, Sohu’s Sogou, Search of China.com. They all came back.

I did some queries at some products keyword and World Cup 2006. The result were perfect, lots of informations as usual. Even those urls for gambling information site were there and the link at the search engine was live.

Yes, business is business. They did what they said. And they back to the right business track for Search Engines.

Although search engines are always regarded as an reliable information center. I like the search to serve us at our daily life, business or study, entertainment or sports.

Just dont be Evil!

The “updating” is over, everyone back to the chinese playground of search engines. 

Today, I did a routine check at all the chinese search engines. 3 of them posted a notice at their homepage, and saying that there are upgrading.

Sina’s Iask, Sohu’s Sogou, and China.com’s search.

Iask notice:

Sogou notice:

China.com notice:

Its easy to explain the upgrading notice of China.com, because their search is powered by Sogou.

What happened to Iask and Sogou, or What happened to Sina and Sohu. They must be experiencing something.

A little bird told me that this “upgrading” would last for 3 days, from 19th to 21th. And the related resellers all got sorry letters before that from search engines. The letter said that due to some unexpected issue, they would stop the search for 3 days and would provide extra one week service as compensation.

Some rumor said that they might merge each other. I dont believed that. A very reliable little bird told me that, someone will be the Timev Second, and become the exclusive dealer for sou.china.com’s pay search. They had the contract in the hand.

So, the situation is that 3 chinese search engines will take 3 days off each, maybe from 19th to 21th, maybe longer.

Anyway, we still have google, baidu, yahoo, zhongsou and all the chinese search they power.
It’s enough!