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Randy
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 Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 3:25 pm Post subject: Google, Yahoo extend presence |
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Google, Yahoo! extend presence
Liu Baijia
2004-06-22 06:43
US search engine giants Yahoo! and Google are posed to take a dominant position in the world's most populous country by launching new services and partnering with local companies.
Yahoo! in Beijing yesterday launched a search engine portal, Yisou.com, the first time that the US company has registered a new website for its search engine service in a country outside the United States.
"Many things that we did not do in any other Yahoo! markets were done in China and these moves show our strong commitment to this market," said David Lu, deputy managing director of Yahoo!'s North Asia operations.
The search engine portal has a clean and simple interface similar to professional search engine service providers such as Google and the Chinese firm Baidu.com.
Yahoo! will relocate about 1,000 search engine servers from the United States to China next month and the servers will be used to provide services for the Chinese population around the world.
Lu said that Yahoo! would not focus on short-term returns from Yahoo! China and new services.
Zhou Hongyi, president of Yahoo! China, said he believed that the launch of the new search portal would change the competition scenario in China.
"If we say the competition in China was mainly between Google and Baidu before, the future one will be between the two alliances - Yahoo!-3721 versus Google-Baidu," he said.
Yahoo! acquired Hong Kong-based 3721 Network Software Co Ltd, which controls the major Chinese real name service provider Beijing 3721, last year for US$120 million.
Google, which has not had a physical presence in China, last week reportedly invested US$10 million in Baidu, a major Chinese search engine. A free-lance Internet analyst surnamed Lu said the moves from Yahoo! and Google would have significant impact on the search engine market because of their huge capital and rich experience in the field.
(China Daily 06/22/2004 page10) |
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Lord
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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I just looked at yisou.com
Looks very similar to google 
Looks pretty cool, I'll be visiting china in a few months, see if it gets big or not
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jjpowers
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| Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:29 am Post subject: Yahoo's Yisou Offering |
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Yisou will provide a unique window into China for the Internet community.
Thanks for the info Randy.
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intelliot
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| Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder, how many people in China understand English?
Perhaps we'll need a Chinese section on GC  |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| that might be a good idea |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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| intelliot wrote: | | I wonder, how many people in China understand English? |
not many, I believe. but that's what I don't get. the big players in the global outsourcing industry are India, the Philippines - two countries with a largely fluent English population - and China... or maybe the call centers there are meant just for Chinese customers?!?!
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:03 am Post subject: |
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| i wish the would have a english version of there sites. so i can actually understand what am looking at when i vist there sites. they have cool products. |
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| whne it comes to china they dictate the terms. ms windows has a complete chinese version. computing there is done more in the local language than in english. it is a country where you enter on their terms. |
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