A Bing boycott? Why not boycott China?

Yesterday in a blog post, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called for a boycott of Bing, because of the way it handles Chinese characters searches outside of China when searching for politically sensitive ... Read more »

New Bing Mobile app for China (WL Messenger, too)

While we can have all kinds of fun with numbers about search market share in the US, there’s no getting around the fact that Google dominates.  However in China, the search market landscape is ... Read more »

China blocks Bing.com, Hotmail.com, Live.com, Twitter, Flickr

Receiving word from multiple sources, including some of our friends in China, that a number of websites in China are blocked, including Bing.com, Microsoft’s newly rebranded “decision engine”. Danwei.org, P2P.net, and our friends at ... Read more »

MSN China: “prayers and blessings” to earthquake victims

Our thoughts and prayers go out to victims of the recent earthquake in China, and MSN China is helping to remember those who suffered through the earthquake by remembering them with a Rainbow symbol ... Read more »

New Windows Live Community in China

Our good friend PicturePan2 has been working hard on a new project, a new Windows Live Community in China.  I asked him to write up a post on it, in English: Hello everyone, I ... Read more »

Live Search Maps – the Chinese version

Live Search Maps announced via their blog today that a new Chinese version is now available, at www.ditu.live.com (ditu (地图) means maps in Chinese, according to our friend PicturePan2, who was of course already ... Read more »

More on Live Maps in China: O'Reilly interviews Vincent Tao

Some interesting information from Vincent Tao, Senior Director of Virtual Earth and Live Local Search at Microsoft, from an interview by Brady Forrest at O’Reilly Radar.  While maps.live.com is fully available in China, the ... Read more »