Jike
A Tencent-backed, Reddit-Facebook hybrid is taking off in China
Jike is an ambitious startup that hopes to capitalize on a conspicuous gap in China’s social media sector – the lack of community.
Keji Elder · · 5 min read
China has a new state-run search engine that nobody will ever use
China has a new search engine today, though most web users won’t notice or ever visit it. The brand-new ChinaSo is a state-run search site that Sina Tech believes is
Steven Millward · · 2 min read
China’s Most Irrelevant Search Engines to Merge as Government Takes New Swing at Search?
When you think of search in China, you think of Baidu. If you keep thinking, you’ll probably think of Qihoo 360 and Sogou, too. But you probably won’t think of
C. Custer · · 2 min read
China’s Censors Leap to Defense of Failed State-Run Search Engine
In China’s competitive search engine market, three of them are state-run products. Unfortunately for authorities, who want to control every aspect of what Chinese people consume and say on the
Steven Millward · · 3 min readChinese Search Engines Sign Code of Conduct, Agree to Ease Up on the Back-Stabbing
Chinese web companies have a bad reputation for back-stabbing and skullduggery – but that might be about to change, at least for China’s search engines. The country’s top 12 search
Steven Millward · · 2 min read“People’s Search Engine” Jike Won’t Totally Imitate Google (But Maybe It Should)
Jike CEO Deng Yaping, via Sina Tech Last year, state-owned Party mouthpiece newspaper People’s Daily decided to get into the search game and launched Goso.cn. Perhaps because that name was
C. Custer · · 8 min readAre CCTV’s Attacks on Baidu a Scheme to Boost China’s State-Run Search Engines?
The prolonged investigations by state-run television, CCTV, into China’s biggest search engine, Baidu, look suspicious to some observers in the tech industry. Privately, some fear that the reporting is actually
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