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Chinese portal rankings

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

iResearch has compiled the Alexa data for us: Sina has the greatest reach (defined as how many Alexa users per million are using it everyday.  Alexa says that in the last 3 months of this year, Sina’s reach has grown by another 8%.

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Baidu’s “zeitgeist” rankings

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

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Google has its “zeitgeist” feature which allows you to take the pulse of most popular search terms for the week, month, or even year; Baidu has a similar feature called “list of hottest Chinese searches” 中文搜索风云榜.  Neither are particularly intuitive to me, frankly, since they both divide the search terms into strange categories–e.g., Google’s “spring break” list…

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Song Zude’s 宋祖德 nasty gossip blog: big on Sohu

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

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While we are busy writing about Xu Jinglei’s blog knocking BoingBoing off the top spot at Technorati, bloghoo.Sohu.com puts Xu well below China’s really popular blogs–at least on Sohu, one of China’s top portals. Nydia Chen, who’s working with us at Virtual China this summer, will be doing a comparison of the top portals’ blogging ranks, so watch…

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c2c

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

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China Tech Stories alerts us to a new report from CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center 中国互联网络信息中心, and no, it doesn’t match the acronym): 2006 Chinese C2C Online Sales Survey. In other words, a snapshot of what’s going on with person-to-person direct sales over the Internet, through online auctions, in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. …

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Technorati’s Top 100: few Chinese blogs

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

Technorati has a most recent list of Top 100 blogs, “as measured by unique links in the last 6 months.” Ethan Zuckerman and Sam Flemming have both commented on why Chinese blogs are likely to be under-measured on Technorati (although it’s been said that Technorati is still better than the Chinese blog search engines). Flemming points out that some of…

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global “e-readiness” report

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

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The Economic Intelligence Unit and IBM have released their 2005 E-readiness Rankings, a report which assesses various nations’ and regions’ abilities to “promote and support digital business and information and communications technology (ICT) services.”  The ranking system in and of itself, as well as the notion that e-practices will evolve along some known continuum (at one point…

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