Chinese search engines- Chinese portals

which are the most famous Chinese portals and search engines

[zaneta]

I am seaching for information for Chinese portals and search engines /their daily visitors etc?

[redstorm]

let's me answer you:
Chinese Search engines:
A. www.baidu.comC 62.1%(market share)
B www.google.cn 25.3%
C. www.yahoo.cn 4.8%
D. www.sogou.com 3.2%
E. www. iask.com1.2%
small search engines also include: www.soso.com and www.zhongsou.com , www.msn.com.cn etc.
Chinese Portals
A. www.sina.com.cn
B. www.163.com
C. www.sohu.com
D. www.tom.com
All of the above portals have millions unquie vistors. Hope it will be helpful to you. :)

[zaneta]

We have a travel site and we are thinking of promoting our site in Chinese market - what do you suggest to do?

[azimao529]

Baidu.com

P4P business

[bill]

redstorm, thanks for the search engine data.

Does anyone have up-to-date market share figures for the portal sites?

Also, who's powering who in the portal market? How do the search engine shares look in the portal realm? Does Baidu still have a higher share when you look at the search engines that power the large Chinese portal sites?

[zaneta]

How can a site be added in baidu?

[bill]

From this thread: Adding a site to Chinese SEs [webmasterworld.com]

• Add a site to Baidu [baidu.com]

However, it's usually considered best practice to let the SE spiders find you. If you have links from any listed site they should crawl you shortly. I haven't submitted a site to a search engine in years.

[zaneta]

Must a site be in Chinese in order to be added?
i have seen several sites in English

[redstorm]

To let you know better of the search engines in the Mainland China market, I'd like to provide Chinese portals that are powered by other search engines:
1.soso, powered by google
2.sina powered by iask
3.163 powered by google
4. sohu powered by sogou
5 tom.com powerd by baidu
4.21cn.com powerd by baidu

Must a site be in Chinese in order to be added?

Answer:it's not a must. But as you know, baidu is famous for Chinese language search, so a Chinese language page will surely help your site to get included.
Differents search engines have different criterions to accept a site. In general, the age, the visitor number, the content, the language, the hosting location, or even the domain name of the website will decide if your site will be accepted.

[bill]

Thanks for the portal data redstorm. This is quite an informative thread.

You mentioned earlier that these portals have millions of unique visitors. Could you expand on that at all? For example, in a given month do you have general traffic figures for the portals? It would be interesting to see the breakdown.