AllThingsD » China Central Television http://allthingsd.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:49:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Early Reviews of China's State Web Products: Underwhelming http://allthingsd.com/20110308/early-reviews-of-chinas-state-web-products-underwhelming/ http://allthingsd.com/20110308/early-reviews-of-chinas-state-web-products-underwhelming/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:00:48 +0000 Loretta Chao http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=37396 State media outlets People’s Daily, Xinhua and China Central Television are betting on microblogging, search engines and other Internet products for future growth. Some say their deep pockets may help them become legitimate competitors in China’s Internet sector—but until then, there will be plenty of skeptics to win over.

People’s Daily, which Reuters reported Monday may be planning an initial public offering in Shanghai this year, launched a microblogging service last year and a search engine in December called Goso.com, appointing the former head of Google’s research institute in China as its chief scientist last month. Xinhua launched its own search engine, Panguso.com, in February in partnership with China Mobile, and CCTV has been operating an online video platform CNTV since the end of 2009.

“We cannot rule out the possibility that Panguso, like Goso, is a government tool to tighten control of the information search field,” an Internet user said on a Baidu online forum, under the name iaspecjack.

“Google studied how to find information … Baidu later studied how to find only parts of the information … Goso came in the latest and it studies how to not find information,” a user from Guangdong wrote on Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo.

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]]> http://allthingsd.com/20110308/early-reviews-of-chinas-state-web-products-underwhelming/feed/ 0 Baidu Bars Some Unlicensed Medical Firms From Paid Listings; They Account for 10-15 Percent of Revenue http://allthingsd.com/20081118/baidu-bars-some-unlicensed-medical-firms-from-paid-listings-those-customers-account-for-10-15-percent-of-revs/ http://allthingsd.com/20081118/baidu-bars-some-unlicensed-medical-firms-from-paid-listings-those-customers-account-for-10-15-percent-of-revs/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:55:06 +0000 Eric Savitz http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=6095 Baidu (BIDU) today issued a press release to address allegations in a China Central Television report that yesterday drove down the Chinese Internet search company’s shares $44.80, or 25 percent.

As I noted in several posts yesterday, a CCTV report broadcast on Nov. 15 and 16 asserted that some unlicensed medical companies appeared high in the company’s search results due to their willingness to pay for popular keywords. Baidu’s search engine mixes paid and unpaid search results. The company was also accused of pulling from its search index some organizations that declined to buy keywords.

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