According to latest research by iResearch

Baidu up: 56.6% market share
Google down: 32.8% market share
Yahoo: <5%

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Baidu opens a section of its website that searches within only Chinese government websites (e.g. websites suffixed with .gov.cn, the CCTV site).

Source: PostShow

Chinese holidays presented with the appropriate Chinese calender dates and astrological signs.

Source: PostShow

From the wonderful folks at PostShow:

Goto Google Translate.
Type in 百度 (= Baidu).
Select Chinese to English.
Translate.

Result: “Lower”.

A China Net Investor post from earlier this year lists some popular Asian knowledge-sharing, community-based sites that compete and (in the case of Naver) even edge out search engines like Google.

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Check out this hilarious ad from Chinese search engine, pointed out on Sam Flemming’s excellent blog.  It features a depiction of a tall, white foreigner in a tophat [representing Google?] speaking a somewhat stupidly accented Chinese, holding the arm of a Chinese girl in a wig and a white wedding dress.  Reminds me of some of the anti-foreign Chinese cartoons…

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Dynamic Internet Technology released a report on results of Google.com vs. Google.cn searches, but done via a proxy inside China. Not surprisingly, things look different from there:
Besides removing results, Google also adds more results from websites in China to www.google.cn and www.google.com when accessed from China. Those websites in China usually follow government propaganda closely. Because of the…

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