My Chinese Blog on Baidu «百度» ;-)

27 Apr 2007 (Fri)

I’VE JUST CREATED a bilingual blog on Baidu Spaces «百度空间» called «拍掌丛林» (hehe “ClappingTrees” as usual, not literal translation though ) and using “descendent of DongShan” «东山后裔» for my pen name. My experience with Baidu had been such a breeze. So many beautiful templates to choose from. Modules which are add-on plugins in WordPress are already there by default, e.g. Recent Readers, Baidu Search, Visitor Stats, “Read More”, social networking (”Add xxx as friend”).

ClappingTrees blog in Baidu

At first impressions, besides the minimalist search (搜藏) interface, Baidu seems to offer many services similar to those offered in Google: e.g. news (新闻), images (图片), maps (地图), video (视频), Blogger-equivalent (空间), BlogSearch (博客搜索) and toolbar (超级搜霸). However, one key difference seems to be in the extent of integration. Unlike Google, the many services in Baidu feel like subfeatures of ONE service and not many separate services. I only need to log in once.

What do you think? Have you used Baidu and Google? Which do you prefer, and why?

See also discussion on the Asia Social Media 2.0 Forum.

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  1. eastcoastlife says:
    April 28th, 2007 at 11:50 pm

    wah! You’re bilingual too!
    Would like to try Baidu Spaces too! I use baidu for my searches only.
    Thanks.

  2. 鸿运 says:
    November 5th, 2008 at 8:24 am

    我想交流中国留学生在广西，哦哦

  3. 鸿运 says:
    November 5th, 2008 at 8:24 am

    i like music

  4. happyinchina says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 9:06 am

    Beautiful blog.I like it.Are you a Chinese?

 

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