With all the talk on my blog and others about search engines in China, it’s only fitting to post the market share and popularity rankings for 2005. Baidu is the clear leader, and Yahoo has lost quite a bit of popularity.

In related news, Baidu’s Q3 year over year revenue growth was 173%.

I’m quite aware that some bloggers are ranting that Google must be evil just for creating a google.cn domain that filters search results according to Chinese law (and alerts users as to why results have been removed). Many of the same bloggers are simply confused or mis-reporting news. Google follows the laws all [...]

Google never ceases to astound me. From the start, it’s been a company far less focused on making money than on solving interesting problems and creating an almost campus like atmosphere that attracts uber-geeks like candles to a flame. True, the founders would never have gotten VC backing (it was close as it [...]

It was a close call. I nearly lost all of my blogging from my Colorado trip. Hostgator had another “technical issue”. This one involved wiping out everything on the server that hosts me, and then restoring a back up from January 20th. In other words, it wiped out my whole trip. [...]