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Google China has launched a new blog search portal for mainland China, just a few weeks after doing so for Hong Kong and Taiwan. The blogging search engine is still in beta mode, but already gives results from both international and Chinese major blogging platforms. Even blogs hosted by Google top competitor Baidu can be found.
Time will tell if the new site will have any positive impact on Google presence in China and on the Chinese blogosphere. Google Blog Search China can be accessed through this link .
Source: www.seo4china.com

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We need to hire an additional office assistant to serve as secretary to our general manager. Check our job page for more details.

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We are pleased to announce that our Shanghai office, registered under the name “亮桥商务咨询(上海)有限公司” (in English, SinoVantage International Limited), will be opened for business starting from September 10th, 2007. We are very excited and look forward bringing our special touch to the search marketing industry in Shanghai and mainland China. By combining our international expertise with the local knowledge of our Shanghai staff, our objective would be to become a major player in the internet marketing industry in the booming Chinese market.

The office location is located on 273, Siping Rd, Fulong Bldg, 4th Floor, Rm410. Contact details and map will be provided very soon on our contact page.

I will be personally in charge of the new office, and most of our SEO outsourcing business will be relocated by the end of the year from Hong Kong to this new office. We will keep you updated through this blog.

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Baidu has launched the beta version of its Voice Search service, which basically allow users to get help from Baidu’s customer service by dialing 11616690. The purpose is to operate on a Q&A model. This number can be called by users of the fixed-line operators China Telecom and China Netcom, as well as those of mobile carriers China Mobile and China Unicom. If you are dialing from outside the capital you need to add Beijing code before the number (010-11616690).

The voice search service is currently free, with lines opened from 9 AM to 9 PM. The service is currently available in Chinese only.

For more information about this new Baidu service, please click here (in Chinese).

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Alibaba.com, the parent company of Yahoo China, and one of the leading IT companies in China, has announced the launch of its own online ad marketplace, alimama.com. The new network has the potential to cause a serious threat to Google Adsense (Adcenter and Yahoo Search Marketing are virtually not an option in China). Alibaba’s own B2B websites give it a deep pool of potential advertisers (i.e. the millions of small and medium sizes enterprises that use the international and local versions of the site), and the company’s leading position in China will help it push its new system to local publishers and website owners.

The main question remains: are Chinese online advertising market ready yet? On the other hand, other than its local origin, can alimama.com really compete with Google Adsense and be profitable? There are many cases of Chinese companies ousting or beating foreign counterparts due to their local comparative advantage (Alibaba’s Taobao vs Ebay, Google vs Baidu etc.), but online marketing is a relatively new field for Alibaba, and the company doesn’t have yet a leading and self-owned search engine to rely on, on the contrary to Google or Baidu.
Only time will tell and confirm the potential of the new ad marketplace. We will be following this new site through our blog.
Patrick Abotsi
www.seo4china.com

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Alipay, an online payment system owned by Yahoo-invested Alibaba.com, will cease Firefox support past August 15th. The impact would be minimal though, Firefox popularity among Chinese web users is no where near comparable to its position in Western markets, the local No2 browser being Maxthon, a locally grown IE clone.
Patrick Abotsi
www.seo4china.com

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The first edition of the China Blog Awards was organized by Chinalyst with the objective of voting the best English blogs in China. Hundreds of blogs have been competing the last few weeks for the top spot in one of the following categories: Best Business-Law China Blog, Best General China-Blog, Best China News Blog, Best Personal China Blog, Best Technology China Blog and Best Travel China Blog.

We are very honored to have been voted runner up in the Best Technology China Blog category (although we would have been even more happier to win it all ). Thanks for all the readers who voted for us, which is very encouraging especially considering the fact that our blog has been set up only a month or so and has a very small number of posts so far. We will look forward to next year edition, and congratulations for Fili from Chinalyst for making these awards happen.

We will add the sites of the winners and runner up of the China Blog Awards 2007 as featured listings to our China Expat Directory, absolutely free of charge.

For more information on the results (top three in each category), please click here

Patrick Abotsi
www.seo4china.com

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