Taobao has just updated its product search capability. You will see it on the homepage . In September, Taobao banned Baidu's search spider to access its content. Apparently it believes an in-site search will be more beneficial to its users.

Microsoft Live Search is promoting itself in Chinese market. It just launched a special theme for spring festival search. Here's the address: 2009.cj.live.com . Interestingly, it's not linked from the homepage of live search. It's mainly like an aggregated portal

This version of Douban's 9taps reader is a revolution. It's not about the content in four channels. It's about how it can help you go through you subscription more smoothly. Douban's own PR post is misleading by leaning too much

Baidu now has search suggestions for a couple of search products, including web search , image search , video search and maybe more. It has suggestions for both English and Chinese language. The suggested search keywords are different in different

Kaixin001.com , the hottest name in China's SNS sector, has started to monetize its traffic by adding ads into its extremely popular social game apps. Parking war is one of the most popular social games in Kaixin001, now you can

Zhang Yong, COO of Taobao.com, talked about the general market environment of online shopping in China, business of Taobao, its challenges and strategies in an interview with Knowledge@Wharton website . According to Zhang, After five years of development, [Taobao's] trading

BarCamp Beijing 2008 will be held Saturday, 6 December at Intel's Beijing Offices at 8F of Raycom Infotech Park A. BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It

Last Tuesday on Ad:tech Shanghai, I was honored to be invited by Sam Flemming of CIC Data to be a panelist of "Internet Word of Mouth in China: Brands Engaging with Real People, Real Talk and Real Community". On the

CIC Data today released Its Q3 white paper, The Internet is THE Community": IWOM White Paper Series on Internet Word of Mouth (IWOM) Development in China. The white paper covers four topics, the first two topics, i.e. "The Chinese IWOM

If you are familiar with China's web 2.0 companies, you should hear of Feedsky , which is regarded as a China's Feedburner to offer feed hosting service for independent bloggers and blogging service providers. Since July, there were some rumors

We have been hearing about Xiami 's new beta from multiple sources. Xiami is a P2P music sharing community. The key services include a P2P client, web based metadata directory and economy system. To have a preview of the music,