Google in China

With the year 2009 drawing nearer, Google wrapped up her most popular serach portals and terms for China this year. Alibaba group’s Taobao.com took the third place. While Hong Kong’s actor Edison Chen is also under the spotlight.

The latest announcement for the most popular search on  Google in China during 2008 was

  1. Sina, one of the most popular portals in the country.
  2. Another portal, Netease, came in second.
  3. The online auction site Taobao, which is owned by Alibaba.com, took third
  4. Video-sharing sites Youku placed fourth
  5. Video-sharing sitesTudou, placed fifth
  6. Tencent’s QQ, the most popular instant messaging software in China, came in sixth
  7. Sohu, a popular news portal and search engine, was seventh.
  8. Peer-to-peer (P-to-P) sharing sites Xunlei, which was sued by members of the Motion Picture Association for copyright infringement earlier this year, came in at eighth.
  9. UUsee, a P-to-P streaming video Web site, was ranked ninth.

Google also reported other 2008 word lists for China, one with search terms that grew fastest this year. This list included mainly popular news items or events, including actor Edison Chen in the top spot after a photo scandal in which racy pictures of himself with a number of prominent Hong Kong actresses, singers and others appeared on the Internet.

 

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