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	<title>Demerzel's Blog - Intellectual Analysis on China, SEO, Analytics, and the Web &#187; Baidu</title>
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	<description>Independent and intellectual thoughts ranging from China, SEO, and other international topics</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Baidu Deals With Organic &#038; Paid Results Scandal</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/11/22/baidu-paid-organic-results-scandal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/11/22/baidu-paid-organic-results-scandal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Baidu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PPC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google Base]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google Search Results]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SERPs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Baidu has recently come to terms with media criticisms over whether Baidu allows its paid results to influence what happens in the organic results. The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s China Journal covers this in a little bit of detail noting about Baidu&#8217;s paid results response:
Last night, in a conference call with analysts, Baidu unveiled its response: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google China Launches MP3 Music Search and Adopts Hated Regional Restrictions</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/08/06/google-china-music-mp3-search/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/08/06/google-china-music-mp3-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[中文]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[localization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[music，]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.micahfk.com/blog/?p=358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google China has finally launched its localization initiative in China against Baidu by launching its own mp3 music search and mimicking Baidu&#8217;s successful mp3 search, first found through Music 2.0 and later noted through Search Engine Land. Music 2.0 has the basic scoop:
[T]he much talked about Google MP3 Search service is here at www.google.cn/music [a]nd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baidu Profits and Search Market Share Grow</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/07/31/baidu-profits-search-market-share-grow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/07/31/baidu-profits-search-market-share-grow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Baidu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.micahfk.com/blog/?p=343</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are ever in doubt of the competitiveness of Baidu against Google, note that Bloomberg.com has information on the growing profits of Baidu:
China&#8217;s most-used Internet search engine, posted an 87 percent jump in second- quarter profit, beating analysts&#8217; estimates and sending the shares up 13 percent.
The hidden gem from the article though is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>.CN is Both Top TLD in Numbers and in Spam Domains</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/07/23/top-tld-spam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/07/23/top-tld-spam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Baidu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[search engines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.micahfk.com/blog/?p=331</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something to think about, China&#8217;s TLD (.cn) is boasts the largest number of TLDs and is one of the top spam TLDs as well.
Multilingual Search has the top TLD by numbers details:
For a number of years, Germany (.de) was the world’s most popular ccTLD in terms of registrations.
But about two years ago China made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Trailing Baidu in Chinese Awareness</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/07/20/google-trailing-baidu-in-chinese-awareness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/07/20/google-trailing-baidu-in-chinese-awareness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Baidu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chinese market]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[localization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.micahfk.com/blog/?p=293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve noted a couple times about Google China copying Baidu in trying to surpass Baidu to become market leader within five years with dubious efforts in really understanding the Chinese market, Redline China (Pearl Research) conducted a study seeing how aware the Chinese people are about Google:
Based on interviews with the Chinese youth demographic, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baidupedia</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/04/23/baidupedia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/04/23/baidupedia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.micahfk.com/blog/?p=256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why use allow people to use Wikipedia and lose precious revenue when you can just go to Baidu&#8217;s own search engine friendly &#8220;Baidupedia&#8221; (百度百科)? Cnet has more:

&#8220;There&#8217;s, in fact, no reason for China to use Wikipedia, a service based &#8216;out there,&#8217;&#8221; Chang said at the WWW2008 conference in Beijing on Tuesday. &#8220;It&#8217;s very natural for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Looking to Surpass Baidu</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/04/17/google-over-baidu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/04/17/google-over-baidu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[market leader]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.micahfk.com/blog/?p=254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In addition to my previous post on Google looking to become the market leader in China, Google is also looking to surpass Baidu as well. Sinovantage International&#8217;s blog states:
According to multiple reports, Google has set up a five years plan to gain supremacy in the search engine industry. To do so, it will need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Striving to be Market Leader in China Within Five Years</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/04/15/google-wants-china-market-leader/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/04/15/google-wants-china-market-leader/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has some aspirations to be a market leader in China within the next five years:
His plans to achieving that goal is not exactly clear; he did say Google will focus more on social and mobile features in China. Lee is still seeking social networking and mobile partnerships and acquisitions to help gain share. Lee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baidu Hi Statistics</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/04/08/baidu-hi-statistics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/04/08/baidu-hi-statistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.micahfk.com/blog/?p=249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Within two weeks of its beta launch, Baidu&#8217;s IM Hi already has one million users, but as the China Web2.0 Review notes:
The real challenge is how many percentage of registered users will remain active six month later.
The market here in the US is fairly flat even though there are services out there that allows people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Get Music on Baidu in English</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/03/20/music-from-baidu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/03/20/music-from-baidu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Baidu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[中文]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[English]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/03/20/music-from-baidu/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Baidu is quite well known in China as being the place to get free mp3s by just searching for songs at mp3.baidu.com and then downloading the song from the respective website. Now, this can be done still in Google with some advanced search commands (eg: filetype:mp3 aerosmith), but what could be done for Baidu specifically?
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baidu Seeks to Enter IM Market</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/02/26/baidu-im/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/02/26/baidu-im/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one of the areas where Baidu is actually behind in its own market comparative to Google (unlike my previous post on how Google is so far behind in understanding China and in localizing the Chinese market). The China SEO blog has the details on this:
Baidu has been rumored to preparing the launch it’s own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Succumbs to Localization in China</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/02/07/google-china-localization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/02/07/google-china-localization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is rather interesting to see Google following the acts of Baidu in China as if Google is the Yahoo/MSN within the US. Google cannot seem to get out there in front and actually do anything new without either changing Google&#8217;s MO, copying Sohu, or just being late to the market (eg: Google had no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universal, Sony BMG, and Warner Sue Baidu</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/02/05/baidu-sued-over-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/02/05/baidu-sued-over-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2008/02/05/baidu-sued-over-music/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So much for Baidu getting preferential treatment as I mentioned before as Universal, SonyBMG, and Warner are now suing Baidu for violating copyright laws:
Three global record companies have launched legal proceedings against China&#8217;s top Internet search engine Baidu.com Inc, accusing it of violating copyright by giving access to music files, an international music trade body [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo! China Gets the Shaft as Baidu Escapes Punishment</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2007/12/27/yahoo-china-gets-the-shaft-as-baidu-escapes-punishment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2007/12/27/yahoo-china-gets-the-shaft-as-baidu-escapes-punishment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2007/12/27/yahoo-china-gets-the-shaft-as-baidu-escapes-punishment/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I always have enjoyed pointing out to people how to get free Chinese music from Baidu, then showing them how you can get it from Yahoo! China, but not Yahoo! US. It was really only a matter of time that the big record labels caught on and did something about this:
 Yahoo! China lost their appeal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baidu&#8217;s Person of the Month</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2007/12/12/baidus-person-of-the-month/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2007/12/12/baidus-person-of-the-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The more I think about it, the more I&#8217;m surprised that Google, Yahoo, or MSN doesn&#8217;t do this more often&#8230; really shows how out of touch the search engines are, how much they hold back innovation, or how pointless Baidu can be with this. David Temple at Multilingual Search notes the current people:
Baidu does a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deal Struck Between Mozilla and Baidu</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2007/12/09/deal-struck-between-mozilla-and-baidu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2007/12/09/deal-struck-between-mozilla-and-baidu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2007/12/09/deal-struck-between-mozilla-and-baidu/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mozilla and Baidu struck a deal yesterday giving Baidu access to Firefox&#8217;s browser search:
Baidu has been included in the list of search plug-ins installed with Chinese editions of Firefox since the release of Firefox 2 (if not earlier) but this is the first time that a formal partnership has existed between the search company and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truly Greyhat SEO: When SEO Experts Disagree on Whether Paid Links are Whitehat or Blackhat</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2007/12/06/truly-greyhat-seo-when-seo-experts-disagree-on-whether-paid-links-are-whitehat-or-blackhat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2007/12/06/truly-greyhat-seo-when-seo-experts-disagree-on-whether-paid-links-are-whitehat-or-blackhat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has been trying to reduce the use of buying and selling links (for PageRank) since the last PR update by manually de-indexing some link broker websites along with dropping PageRank for some sites selling links. Quite a few sites selling those links became very worried and either stopped selling their links or placed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baidu Video Search Report</title>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2007/11/20/baidu-video-search-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2007/11/20/baidu-video-search-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demerzel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Shanghaiist catches this story on Baidu&#8217;s Video Search Report:
 Baidu has released its video search report, and Kaiser Kuo of the Ogilvy China Digital Watch translates and summarises some of the key findings. Interestingly, “adult-related” search terms account for 34.14% of daily search volume, followed by celebrity-related (14.74%), TV serial related (12.48%), and animation-related [...]]]></description>
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