Quick Fact: Alexa (which one would presume to be Western biased any way) lsits Google as number 7 in China its partner Sina.com as number 3 and Baidu as number 1. Forget number 2 search engine or one third of Baidu’s traffic, rankings are the mountain that Google has to climb.
ChinaSearchAds.com
The weblog for http://www.chinasearchads.com
June 20, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Actually - and quite suprisingly - Alexa.com does seem to have a large-ish installed base in China. Based on some debates I’ve had about, for example, Alibaba.com’s traffic figures (largely drawn from Alexa), it seems that some believe that a number of the big Chinese sites manage large installed bases of Alexa toolbars to boost their ratings…
June 20, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Paul,
Thank you for this. It does make sense that they would install a big user base. It’s still notable to see Baidu at the top, when you would expect that more community-like sites like Alibaba and Sina would be more effective at getting their loyalists to install.
June 26, 2007 at 8:19 am
[...] and China In my post “Want to See Google’s Problem?” I was corrected by Paul Woodward of Asia Business Media on my belief that Alexa is strongly [...]