Google Exits China, Ends Chinese Operations, Can Baidu Replace Google

Google again shows signs to exit China. In January 2010, Google disclosed the large scale attack on its infrastructure and made an official announcement to stop search result censorship on Google.cn and in China. The cyber attack has been traced to two Chinese schools.
Google China’s Exit Speculations
Google’s latest exit signs in March’s news include:

Google Denies [...]

Show More Results Links on Google China

Google has started to display expandable “Show More Results” links within the organic search results, as reported by Searchengineland.com.
The “Show More Results” links are also available within the search engine result pages of the chinese version of Google (www.google.cn or G.cn).

After clicking on the “plus” sign of the “Show More Results” link, it expands into [...]

Google Music Search

Google’s launch of Music Search in China finally has become official. Over a year ago, Google made a soft-launch.

Google China’s Music Search offers a song screener for those of you who do not have any specific songs of choice in mind. The song screener really looks like “bubble” tag clouds. Using the right side menu, [...]

Google Acquires 265.com

Google is to purchase 265.com, a startup page of Chinese website links (or piloting or daohang). 265.com has been a partner site with since last year and Google’s search box has been positioned at a prominent spot on 265.com.

Previously, Google did launch its own daohang (or startup page of website links), but it is [...]

Google China Counting Down Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Google China (Guge) has customized its logo for the countdown of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, which is believed to be another effort to localize itself in China.

By the way, it says there are still 366 days to go.

Google China News Localization

Google recently tried to further localize its products in China. This time, it is the Guge News (news.Google.cn). Besides the Standard version, Google introduced two other versions to its Guge News: Text-only and Image-intensive versions.

The Standard version:

The Text-only version:

The Image-intensive version:

Daohang Google

Today Google China launched a Chinese web directory site or a user start web page, Daohang (daohang.google.cn). Daohang means “piloting” or “leading to the right directions”.
On Daohang’s homepage has many outbound links pointing to useful Chinese portals, search engines and websites, including Google’s Chinese search rival Baidu, which owns www.Hao123.com, China’s most visited web directory [...]

Google Sells Stake In Baidu

Google has sold its $63 million stake in Baidu, its biggest Chinese search engine rival, on 25 May.
Google was once considered a potential acquirer of Baidu and is believed to make a 12-fold return on its $5 million investment in June 2004. At the time of the August 2005 IPO, Google’s stake represented 2.6% of [...]