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Baidu - Alibaba contest heating up

Don’t miss Tangos’s piece on a very interesting new (though not unexpected) development in the ongoing throw-down between Baidu and Alibaba. After announcing that they’d be getting into the B2B and B2C ecommerce businesses last year and going into an invite-only Beta just weeks ago, Baidu has now announced an online payment system called Baifubao to challenge Alipay, and a C2C platform to take on Alibaba’s dominant Taobao. Things will get very, very interesting I suspect. Baidu is such an incredibly powerful brand in the Internet, and dominating search as it does it will be able to acquire customers with real ease. Taobao, as you’ve likely already heard, has begun blocking spiders from other search engines — a direct slap at Baidu.(from Ogilvy China)

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Baidu Started Up Its Olympic Strategy

Baidu announced that will start up its Olympic Strategy at 2008.baidu.com. Differing from Sina, Sohu and Tencent,etc., Baidu will offer Olympic search traffic guidance, Net-surfers interaction, Net-surfers behaviour analysis at 2008.baidu.com. Yesterday, Baidu also published Net-surfers Olympic Search Report.

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Baidu launchs Online Games Channel

Recently the entry of online games channel emgers on Baidu’s pages. Online games channal is a new product of Baidu. According to Chenfeng, a manager of Baidu, they pay great attention to user’s experience. And Baidu defines the new product as “online games search and community”. “This product bases on Baidu Search Engine, so there is hardly artificial management and the form still follows “simplicity and dependence”. Someone who is on homepage of the games channel can find the games who wants through less than four pages.” said Zhang Yi, another developer.

Currently the profitable model of this product is mainly advertising, but they want to try others model in the future.

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Baidu To Be Released Online Game

A source says that Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) is making preparations for online game channel secretly and plans to release it in two months. One of the known game website 17173’s founders has switched his careers to Baidu to be in charge of the online game business.

According to analysts, Baidu coming into the game field will integrate itself Search, Tieba and so on.

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Baidu.net Domain Will Be For Sale at Public Auction in September 26th

Baidu.net, a domain similar with Baidu.com (NSDQ: BIDU), will be for sale at public auction at the first China Domain Value Forum in september 26.

The domain was registered by a company named “Shanghai Zhuanshi Cailiao” in 2000,  owned by Guo Chunying. Guo said, Baidu.net will be auctioned with the company’s legal person qualification together to avoid disputes,  and the company’s business will be transfered to his another company.

Many people who said they were from Baidu.com or a representative of Baidu.com have wanted to buy the domain. But they failed because of the price. Baidu.com refuses to comment on these things.

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