AOL launches Chinese website

Posted on September 12th, 2008 in Other Search Engines by Patrick Abotsi

After months of preparation AOL has finally launched officially its new Chinese portal. It is accessible at chinese.aol.com ; I wrote earlier on this blog about whether AOL should purchase the .cn or .com.cn of their domains before launching. It seemed they chose to go the easy way, however with such a long url they shouldn’t be surprised to never make a dent in the online news industry in China. I bet the decision to use the sub-domain was taken in a corporate office in the US…

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