PUBLIC MARKS from vista with tag search

China is the world's second-largest Internet market after the United States with more than 110 million users. A survey by Chinese search engine Baidu.com put the current number of blog, or Web log, sites at 36.82 million which are kept by 16 million people, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. The number of Chinese bloggers is expected to hit 60 million by the end of this year, Xinhua said, quoting a report on China's media industry by the prestigious Tsinghua University.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today released the Internet Advertising Revenue Report including final numbers for Q3, Q4, and full year 2005. The report states that Search, Classifieds, Display, and Rich Media all continue to grow at a healthy rate. Overall internet advertising revenues (U.S.) for 2005 totaled $12.5 billion, a new annual record exceeding 2004 by 30%. Q4 2005 internet advertising revenues totaled a record $3.6 billion, representing a 34% increase over same period in 2004.

A new report from iResearch finds that Baidu and Google combined have a 90 percent market share of the Chinese search space. Baidu gets a 56.6 percent slice, followed by Google at 32.8 percent. Others are at less than five percent. China View has more details here: Baidu ranks No. 1 in China's on-line searching market. I don't see the report at iResearch yet, but you can watch for it here. China View doesn't say what time period the figures are for, but China Knowledge says they're for 2005. If so, that makes them different and slightly higher than 2005 year end figures iResearch recently released here.

Search Plugin 是什麼？ 在你的 Firefox 右上方有個搜尋欄，其中可以使用的搜尋引擎有 Google、eBay 等，在搜尋欄輸入關鍵字，按Enter就可以在 Firefox 看到搜尋結果，滑鼠不用再點選許多次，減少你的搜尋與瀏覽所需時間。

全球最大入口網站雅虎去年第四季財報未能達成預期，導致該公司股價一度重挫一○％。專家指出，雅虎目前最大的問題就是在網路搜尋廣告市場中，一步步落後Google的窘境。更令人感到擔心的是，雅虎儘管苦思追趕Google的對策，卻是成效不彰。 根據金融時報的報導，雅虎的劣勢主要和Google在美國以外市場享有的高佔有率以及該公司在搜尋技術上的投資不夠有關，但為了挽回頹勢，雅虎目前也積極尋找反撲的機會，準備經過一番重新改造後再出發。

And Amazon, whose A9 subsidiary has since August offered street-level images taken from vans, says the main goal of its site is to help people find local businesses. The company's site currently lists images from two dozen U.S. cities. The most detailed images available from Microsoft's service are currently only for some U.S. cities, and there are some satellite images of international locations. Google offers images from all over the world, but the amount of detail varies greatly depending on the location.

Wink lets you search across the Tagosphere. If you're using del.icio.us, Digg, Slashdot, and/or Yahoo MyWeb, this is your search engine. Find the latest links that people like you think are great. Enjoy!

Some topics are so hot, you've just gotta stay on top of who's saying what, right when they're saying it. Introducing Technorati Mini – pop it open from any search to get a mini window that checks for new results once a minute. Stay obsessively up-to-date, right up to the minute.

Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more.

A look inside the world of search from the people of Yahoo!

入口網站雅虎奇摩的搜尋功能愈來愈多樣化，除了傳統搜尋外，近年來不斷結合圖片搜尋、商品搜尋、地區搜尋、奇摩生活+、奇摩知識+等，更貼近適合個人需求的搜尋，雅虎表示，美國雅虎已經推出測試版的「MY WEB」，明年可望在台灣推出更符合個人習慣的搜尋。

致力于搜索引擎的算法研究和改善以及网页信息与信息的提取，提出了网页信噪比的概念并努力推广搜索引擎技术的平民化。

「Blogs, search, RSS, Atom, business news, and general geekery.」 我很喜歡讀Niall的Blog。

全国どこでも簡単地図検索！地図と季節の情報満載！

This site is a fantastic window into the psyche of the more digitally inclined. Here, in another in my series of hack postings, are 10 ways I get more mileage from T'rati.