Comments on: Globally, Baidu Beats Microsoft in Search; Yandex Creeping Up On Ask

By: Watch Out Baidu, China Clamps Down On Music Piracy | Tech stuff center

Watch Out Baidu, China Clamps Down On Music Piracy | Tech stuff center — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:01:04 +0000

[...] from legitimate music companies. This move may pose as a serious problem for China’s most popular search engine Baidu, which has long faced legal issues surrounding its index of pirated [...]

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Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:06:17 +0000

[...] from legitimate music companies. This move may pose as a serious problem for China’s most popular search engine Baidu, which has long faced legal issues surrounding its index of pirated [...]

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Watch Out Baidu, China Clamps Down On Music Piracy | Spin Valley Post — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:30:39 +0000

[...] from legitimate music companies. This move may pose as a serious problem for China’s most popular search engine Baidu, which has long faced legal issues surrounding its index of pirated [...]

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Watch Out Baidu, China Clamps Down On Music Piracy | Cellphone Ultra — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:59:19 +0000

[...] tracks from valid music companies. that move may pose as a serious problem for China’s most popular search engine Baidu, which has enlarged faced legal issues surrounding its index of pirated [...]

By: Watch Out Baidu, China Clamps Down On Music Piracy

Watch Out Baidu, China Clamps Down On Music Piracy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:14:10 +0000

[...] from legitimate music companies. This move may pose as a serious problem for China’s most popular search engine Baidu, which has long faced legal issues surrounding its index of pirated [...]

By: Watch Out Baidu, China Clamps Down On Music Piracy

Watch Out Baidu, China Clamps Down On Music Piracy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:14:10 +0000

[...] from legitimate music companies. This move may pose as a serious problem for China’s most popular search engine Baidu, which has long faced legal issues surrounding its index of pirated [...]

By: Hell_Killer_SS

Hell_Killer_SS — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:54:32 +0000

Russian stupid mad cow yandex.ru is completely useless. even that yandex.ru is dangerous crash your computer!!! beware they are assholes. YAHOO and Goooogle better and normal.

By: Baidu Ranked Third in Asia Pacific Search Market

Baidu Ranked Third in Asia Pacific Search Market — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:02:17 +0000

[...] Globally, Baidu Beats Microsoft in Search; Yandex Creeping Up On Ask Share and Enjoy: [...]

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By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:21:33 +0000

Doesn’t surprise me. China just has a lot of users coupled with the Chinese government’s proactive stance.

By: The Biggest Tech IPO of 2008 Is Coming Out of Russia: Search Engine Yandex to Raise Up To $2 Billion

Tue, 20 May 2008 21:23:30 +0000

[...] Yandex has a bigger search market share in Russia than Google (it is the biggest site in Russia overall). And in Europe it is the No. 3 search engine, ahead of Yahoo and Microsoft. Globally, it is in the top 10. [...]

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[...] Globally, Baidu Beats Microsoft in Search; Yandex Creeping Up On Ask – [...]

By: Arona

Arona — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:53:57 +0000

Yandex is a very good engine, but Google.ru is slowly getting better and picking up market share.

Yandex white labels its search to Mail.ru, so maybe these figures are counted as well??

One thing to note is the Yandex design – undertaken by artlebedev, its a very functional and well thought out design.

By: alexf2000

alexf2000 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:45:02 +0000

Yandex’s numbers does not look very reliable. They probably included all searches that was done by automated crawlers and content grabbers and there are a lot of them. Have a look at this article (in Russian): http://alexf.na...yut-seoshnikov/ Second image produced by special tool of yandex, showing volume of requests. Number of requests for very rare but commercial query jumped from 600 to almost 200 000 in just 1 month. Fact that they showing this new numbers indicates that they does not filter automated bot requests.

By: My-Hou

My-Hou — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:38:45 +0000

As a Chinese person had to Baidu in China’s development that amazed！

By: My-Hou不務正業

My-Hou不務正業 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:36:51 +0000

Worldwide Search Top 10-全球搜索引擎排行…

comScore是一家美国互联网流量跟踪分析公司，几天前发布2007年12月月度全球搜索引擎排行榜：Worldwide Search Top 10
百度也因百度日本被”点名”，进入三甲之列，百度日本看来收获不少（…..

By: Flash The Ripper

Flash The Ripper — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:09:40 +0000

BTW, Yandex is excellent search engine, they also handle a lot of unique functions like considering morphology of words in search queries to produse smarter results. Also, they handle the Russian blogosphere, cleverly.
Personally, I prefer Google, but sometimes Yandex is just couldn’t be replaced even with Gogole (I live in Ukraine which shares a lot of web space and interests with Russia and other ex-USSR countries).

By: Flash The Ripper

Flash The Ripper — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:05:21 +0000

I guess Baidu success is based not only on their search capabilities, but on the Chinese government who banned the Google from use in China (there's a TechCrunch post covering this situation). Also, Baidu use the Google's UI design, including color scheme. Not pretty fair play for Baidu. I think if Russian government could do so (close the access to the Google from Russia), Yandex could be far more closer to the top in the Search Engines rating. Happily, Russian government doesn't understand anything regarding web, they're too busy with oil I guess.

By: Clement

Clement — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:29:13 +0000

Good for Baidu.Google and Yahoo must reign in US and other countries, not in China.

By: DuBois

DuBois — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:14:37 +0000

Not really news. It kind of reflects your cultural ignorance really if you are surprised by such statistics and they are not far off from the last few months report. Probably just that folks who don’t use roman characters don’t visit TechCrunch or care about The Crunchies for example, yes there is a world outside of The Bay Area. Your rhetorical question “Shouldn’t the best search technology win no matter what the language? ” is a little stupid really.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:21:19 +0000

I am a big time Yahoo! fan….although Google is quicker…somehow I like Yahoo much better. It clearly retrieves more results in a single search…may be their crawler is more powerful… Google is more of a hype. Although they do have some smart people inside, and their life seems to be very rossy now…they should just realize “not everyday is a Sunday”….Yahoo! rocks!

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By: poorna shashank

poorna shashank — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:29:16 +0000

@Erick

“Shouldn’t the best search technology win no matter what the language?”

The major part of search technology that is independent of language is the weightage given to links. Other than that, many of the linguistic features of search vary significantly from language to language.

If search technology were to just limit themselves to interpreting words as a random stream of bytes – then your comment might have held strength but if it were to go any further beyond that language would play a much much major role as Otis has already explained.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:09:48 +0000

Erick，Baidu is a great produce and very good at local language（all non-roma alphabet）。great capacity for liquormagnanimity Chinese information.

By: Otis Gospodnetic

Otis Gospodnetic — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:40:08 +0000

Erick:

“Shouldn’t the best search technology win no matter what the language?”

Search technology is *very* closely tied to the language/linguistics. While Google does a good job with English and some other languages, it doesn’t handle all languages well. Each language requires a different treatment. English lends itself to easy stemming, for example, while with CJK languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) stemming makes no sense.

With English “Did you mean?” spelling correction makes sense, but much less so with Chinese or Japanese.

And so on.
Thus, saying “Shouldn’t the best search technology win no matter what the language?” doesn’t really make sense, technically.

By: Everett

Everett — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:43:49 +0000

I find these global stats to be somewhat misleading. Yes- the stats are measured by searches but these are #s taken from one very populous country- China. That’s just 1 country and shouldn’t be represented as the whole world. Anything you build in China will have more views and more clicks because they’re simply more people there!