1. Baidu. First up on our list is Baidu, which is by far the king of Chinese search engines. With an impressive market share of over 75%, it's the largest search engine in China and attracts around 222 million active users a day.
As of September 2021, the search engine market share in Japan is split 75% for Google, 20% for Yahoo! Japan, and 4% for Bing. However, like Bing, Yahoo! Japan's search algorithm is similar to Google's so you do not need to learn two different SEO strategies in order to succeed on either platform.
Conditions in China have often been fraught for Microsoft, with the company's products facing crackdowns from the authorities. In 2019, Bing itself was blocked temporarily. In 2021, Microsoft shut down LinkedIn in China after seven years in the country, citing regulatory and competitive obstacles.
Baidu has come under fire for allegedly selling listings to bidders without adequately checking their claims. In a statement Baidu said it was investigating the matter. The company told the BBC: "We deeply regret the death of Wei Zexi and our condolences go out to his family.
Google's service targets the entire world's worth of websites, indexing Chinese sites on par with every other site. Baidu, by contrast, offers higher ranking to sites with servers located in China, as well as sites with content written in Chinese languages. This is sometimes referred to as "The Great Firewall."
Even outside of China, Baidu still beats Google. While Google evaluates content equally, Baidu prioritises and gives a higher ranking to Chinese content. Naturally, Baidu will have a better performance in the Chinese search engine market.
Baidu is China's largest and most widely used search engine, much like Google in the U.S.
Yes, Google is one of many websites blocked in China, as confirmed by EXPERTE.com's Internet censorship check. Our tool checks the availability of websites in China using servers located in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Blocked websites are a result of the Chinese government's censorship measures.
Naver ( [nei·br] Hangul: 네이버) is a Korean-language online platform of a portal type with its own search engine displaying search results in curated sections, such as news, images, video, shopping, and advertising sites. Naver is popularly dubbed the Google of Korea, as it is currently Korea's number one search engine.
WeChat is the closest thing to Facebook that China has, and at nearly 1.2 billion users – including at least 100 million registered users outside of China – WeChat should be your top priority for your Chinese social media marketing.
(formerly Youku Inc.), doing business as Youku (Chinese: 优酷; lit. 'excellent (and) cool'), is a video hosting service based in Beijing, China.
1. Sina Weibo. Weibo is among the most popular Chinese social media apps, with more than 573 million monthly active users.
But the wildly popular platform, developed with homegrown Chinese technology, isn't accessible in China.
Even though YouTube is blocked under the Great Firewall, many Chinese media outlets, including China Central Television (CCTV), have official YouTube accounts. In spite of the ban, Alexa ranks YouTube as the 5th-most-visited website in China.
Google itself is not banned in Russia, though in March, in the wake of the Ukraine war, the Kremlin did block Facebook.
The short answer is that China does not use the same GPS standard as the rest of the world to plot coordinates on a map. Since maps of China use a different standard than the one used by GPS it causes the GPS coordinates to appear off, sometimes by a large amount, and this is known as the China GPS shift problem.
2010–2016: Giving up search service. In January 2010, Google announced that, in response to a Chinese-originated hacking attack on them and other US tech companies, they were no longer willing to censor searches in China and would pull out of the country completely if necessary.
Baidu, Inc. was incorporated in January 2000 by its creators, Robin Li and Eric Xu. It has grown into a Chinese multinational technology company that provides internet-related services, products, and artificial intelligence (AI). The company is based in Beijing's Haidian District.
These apps have been banned for engaging in activities that are “prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order”. Reports have it that the government is also looking into 275 more Chinese apps that include the likes of PUBG Mobile and ByteDance's Resso.
Li is Baidu's leading shareholder owning some 20% of the company's shares. Baidu is a private enterprise but is known to have close ties with the Chinese government.
Baidu is the most used search engine in China, controlling 76.05 percent of China's market share.