Chinese demographics

The Manager Magazin has some great figures about Chinese demographics. I summarized and translated them and added some own thoughts and conclusions. Although they are originally not directly connected to the Internet and online marketing, numbers like the following are always a good source to draw some interesting conclusions about online marketing (which you will […]

Search engine markets shares in Asia

Recent global market shares of search engines (I/2008, netapplications.com):

Broken down into Asian countries, Google’s markets share looks like this:

I did some research and compared the positions of the search engines in the following Asian markets. If available I added the rough percentages in market share, sometimes the available numbers vary really heavily. Total percentage per […]

Chinese search engines: Comparing Baidu and Google

As in many other countries as well there are a lot of search engines in China but only a few have a relevant market share. These are especially Google and Baidu, and Yahoo to a minor part. Unlike to most other countries in the world, Google is not the market leader in China, in fact […]

Long tail SEO / SEM

In his book „The long tail” Chris Anderson talks about the growing importance of niches and its influence to the mass market. Take Rhapsody, an online music store, as an example. It has 1.5 million albums available for download, whereas a classic offline music store offers approximately 5.000 albums. What both online and offline sales […]