Baidu Launches Social Bookmark Button

Baidu, China’s top search company, just unveiled its Web 2.0 social bookmarking button called “Baidu Share,” which is currently in closed beta. According toMarbridge Daily, users can embed the “Baidu Share” Javascript code into their website, allowing their visitors to share content from the site to 16 different social networking services, including Sohu Microblog, Renren, Kaixin001, Tencent Qzone, Pengyou and Microblog, Sina Weibo, Taobao’s Tao Jianghu, and surprisingly –theonly English productin the mix — Google Buzz....

2 min · 242 words · Michael Martin

Baidu now provides data alongside links in mobile search results

Baidu, the most popular search engine in China, just introduced a mobile version of its “Box Computing” service, which shows relevant information, in addition to existing web links, on search results pages to eliminate the need for using apps. The service allows users to have direct access to games, e-books, music or other content they have searched for instead of showing a list of Web pages containing links. This, in effect, lets users access almost any kind of information and content right in the search engine results page, without the need of any special app....

2 min · 358 words · Christine White

Baidu Plans “Search” Operating System for Mobiles

Following in the footsteps ofGoogleyet again, China’s biggest search engine, Baidu, just revealed its plans to develop a light operating system for mobile devices that uniquely focuses on search. CNBCreports that over the coming three to five years, the company will be creating software that enables users to access a web search box within a second of starting their smartphone or tablet computer, said Robin Li, Baidu’s chief executive. Baidu’s strategy is what Mr Li calls “box computing”, a mobile operating system that could resemble Chrome OS, the light operating system Google has developed....

2 min · 386 words · Cynthia Summers

Baidu releases web-based Android app store for mobile. No app required.

Penn-Olsonreports that Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, has just released a web-based Android app store, accessible via the Baidu Mobile homepage on Android smartphones. No app required. According to the report, the search company is not hosting the apps on its own servers; instead, it utilizes its powerful search engine to display an aggregated list of apps from different third-party app stores in China. It is aligned with Baidu’s“Box Computing” service, which shows relevant information, in addition to existing web links, on mobile search results pages to eliminate the need for using apps....

2 min · 330 words · Ryan Ellis

Baidu reveals revamped legal music platform

Baidu just launched itsrevampedmusic platform calledBaidu Ting(or Baidu Listen) in private beta and screen shots have been leaked. Penn-Olsongot a first look inside Baidu Ting and explains that among the features would be a combination of free and paid music streaming and downloading of legal music. It will take on a new approach for monetization with a quick and easy payment method as well as support for songwriters through royalties....

2 min · 342 words · Lisa Mendoza
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