Comments on: Baidu, China internet, and goverment relations

By: mike

mike — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:58:39 +0000

thanks my friend no worries…

maybe we should still post it somewhere……on a domain we are not afraid about.

By: nigel

nigel — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:13:00 +0000

hope you are not annoyed…i dindn’t expect this dialogue would be so long either…just don’t want to get you involved in trouble, that’s all…hope i am not too gossipy…

By: mike

mike — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:50:36 +0000

hey Nigel,

F__K it, just post it, if you already translated it..

haha

go go go

By: nigel

nigel — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:48:59 +0000

i was so lucky to see this in time…it has been translated and i was actually posting it…but thank god i went to see your reply just in time…
but i don’t know what do you refer to. i google it, but found only some BT websites got bloked for copyright problems…

thank you and good luck, Mike!

By: mike

mike — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:04:01 +0000

haha, ok Nigel,
you have convinced me….lets just keep this blog post in English .. . no need to make it Chinese mailini one….
Hopefuly one day we dont need to think twice about what we post in china.
I heard last week many domains were blocked in China for taking part in groups that the government didnt approve – that is just sad.
seems like little children fighting to me.

good job Nigel!
Mike

By: nigel

nigel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:06:33 +0000

of course,if it were only us, baidu won’t change, but you see, many chinese don’t like baidu, too, especially when google got easier and more native….so some will turn to google even it’ not a chinese company… what’s more, google provides some imformation that baidu or the government won’t want to see, which just make some people want to use google more….

and i think it’s getting more interesting as i GOOGLE-ed something about baidu charging money, and it seems if i post your article some where else, some people may be led here…..will you agree if i do that? you had better think twice before deciding…

By: mike

mike — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:03:27 +0000

hi Nigel,
thanks for stepping up and taking initiative with my Chinese blog. Life many times doesn’t give us the answers, we need to make our own path and suggest to others what we can do.

Yea, Baidu, hopefully will have to be open and un-biased as it gets bigger, and as China continues to open to the outside world.

Lets watch and see, I don’t think you or I can change them! haha

By: nigel

nigel — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:45:37 +0000

don’t mention it, you taught me a lot, like, to respect others even though he is your employee. and later, dswei gave me a special gift for doing this….

as for baidu, i don’t know much about it. but i know that once it was found by cctv that it was charging money for higher rank and it really annoys many people as it’s like a directory of advertisements instead of a search engine…but any way, users will decide whether it is right or wrong and you needn’t get angry about it though it is sure you will suffer some loss one way or another…

By: mike

mike — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:35:55 +0000

hey Nigel,
Yes, please translate this article….even when I was writing it I was thinking I am whining a bit…but I think people relate to this feeling….

And I don’t want to hide my feelings, I am a human being like everyone else, I don’t want to cover up the maybe “daily” thoughts I have.

Glad you like it, and thanks so much for getting these on the Chinese blog

Mike

By: nigel

nigel — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:04:44 +0000

can i translate this article? some people may speak highly of you for being frank and they may share the same feeling. while, on the other hand, some may think you are whineing… if you want it to be published, let me know.
by the way, in my opinion, it’s a good one and i like it.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:51:27 +0000

yes…that is true…..and will force Baidu to have to be more fair to its advertisers..

as they say in USA “don’t bite the hand that feeds you” and that seems to be what Baidu is doing….

see what happens…

By: shazeer

shazeer — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:49:07 +0000

Google has set a very good example for baidu，in my opinion,what baidu do to her advertisers would not do anything good for her business in the long term…