Top 10 Baidu Searches Last Week

Here’s what people were searching for on Baidu (China’s biggest search engine) last week:

1. Honor Mission: Honor Mission is a free-to-play FPS being developed by the Chinese military as a recruiting tool in the model of the US military’s highly successful “America’s Army” game. On June 25th, a press conference in Beijing revealed more details on the game, which is expected to launch in June 2012. (Image source: Baidu Baike)



2. “Hong Huai Hua”: Roughly translated as “red flower”, “Hong Huai Hua” is a 2009 Mainland television drama that’s getting people’s attention again as it is re-aired on Hunan satellite network. (Image source: Baidu Baike)



3. Bibi Chou: A recent news article quotes a former SuperGirl contestant as saying that singer Bibi Chou is one of the stars who doesn’t wear makeup — in other words, one of the stars who is genuinely beautiful. (Image source: Baidu Baike)



4. Zhou Dongyu: Zhou, the young actress who was plagued by rumors of a very low Gaokao score last week, has admitted in the news that she’s not satisfied with her real score, even if it isn’t as low as the rumored one. (Image source)



5. “City Hunter” 11: City Hunter was a Japanese anime in the early 1980s that has gone through several remakes since then. The most recent is a Korean live-action version that hit the air in May of this year. People are searching for episodes of that version. (Image source: Baidu Baike)



6. “Naruto” 438: Another week, another episode of the Japanese anime show Naruto to watch. This week it’s episode 438, and we’re betting next week episode 439 will make this list, too. (Image source)



7. Guo Meimei incident: People are still searching for information about Guo Meimei, who boasted online of her wealth and claimed to be connected to the Chinese Red Cross (a connection that organization denies wholeheartedly). This week she apologized and said she’d made it up. (Image source)
8. “Lie to Me” 15: “Lie to Me” is a popular Korean soap; people are searching for the latest episode. (Image Source: Baidu Baike)
9. 3D Sex and Zen: People are looking for clips from or information about 3D Sex and Zen, a Hong Kong erotic film that’s gotten a lot of attention — both positive and negative — one the mainland. (Image source: Wikipedia)
10. “Heartstrings”: Heartstrings is the name of a new Korean drama that just hit airwaves this past week. (Image source: Baidu Baike)