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As google starts to establish a foothold in China, the Chinese government has posed a number of restrictions on the search giant. And Google has paid a high price to remain in the lucrative market.

One of which will be removing some listing from its search result. This is actually inconsistent with Google’s mission. But not able to provide any information at all for the Chinese is worse than anything.

In fact, Google has also bought a small share of www.baidu.com. For info, Baidu is currently the leading search engine in China.

Google’s site in China will be called www.google.cn.

We have also started preparing for the Chinese market. While my partner has plans to start web hosting in China, I intend to start a China web directory. I have called it www.chinadirectory1.com. Its the best name I have found. Other names like:

• www.chinadirectory.com
• www.china-directory.com
• www.chinawebdirectory.com

Are all gone. =)

This is our first initiative. And we intend to be active in China by March this year. Anything later than that, we will be behind schedule.

Read a news article from Yahoo! News: http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20051210/tc_cmp/174910288.

It’s interesting to note that MSN portal lead Google by more than 10 million visitors, with 92.1 million internet users. I believe a large number is generated from MSN messenger. Google recently launch Google Talk.
I personally feel that MSN messenger is quite a good program. So, it will probably take some time for Google Talk to grab any market share from MSN in instant messaging.

With China becoming the World’s 2nd largest internet population now, I have been observing Baidu, the Chinese search engine. It has a market share of 37 percent, which is still the strongest among other major search companies in China now. I believe Baidu is going to have a hard time to retain its market share. Google and Yahoo! will show no mercy as they penetrate the Chinese market.

One of the most painful tasks for webmasters is to generate good quality, unique content. I am sure webmasters would agree with me. It is even tougher if you are not the expert in your industry. Generating unique content that is useful for online readers is almost not possible.

Search engines like Google has taken extra steps to clamp down on web sites with duplicate content. In fact, Yahoo! has done something similar. I know about this because one of my sites has a lot of duplicate content. Google index all my pages still, but those pages cannot be found in top 1000 of the search result. Yahoo! simply ignore those duplicate content pages that I have on the site. The site has about 150 pages of content. But yahoo only index 15 pages which are more unique.

Of course, it was not my intention to have those duplicate content in the 1st place. It so happen that there is a bigger, authority site providing so much good quality content that I have nothing much to write for the site.

If 2 pages contain duplicate content, Google will give high ranking to the pages which belong to a reputable/authority site: (Example Ministry of Education Singapore). It will consider the other site a duplicate, and pages belonging to that site will not receive decent ranking.

Search enignes have their reasons for doing so. They do not want internet users to search for results of the same thing. this is not useful.

Now, I can only do a total revamp of my site. Removing almost all the duplicate content. As a webmaster and SEO specialist, I believe that it is no use writing if search engines dun find my pages attractive.

If you are responsible for generating content for your company’s site, you may want to avoid having duplicate pages. There is a site which can check for duplicate content online: http://www.copyscape.com.