One More Reason to Believe in Cyber China (at Motley Fool)

If you're hungry for good news in this sorry market, just check out the booming Web surfing trends in China. Nielsen Online is teaming up with the operator of ChinaRank to offer traffic insight into China's fast-growing Internet market. Now that China has more than 250 million people online, gauging the country's Web pulse is critical. It shouldn't surprise you to find Baidu.com (Nasdaq: BIDU) on top, when it comes to both overall traffic and the lucrative search engine niche. It's the list after that where things get interesting. Source: CR-Nielsen. Surprised to see Google not even fit to be bronzed? Well, Google is still a distant second when it comes to serving up search engine queries, but this table is about overall website popularity. Tencent runs QQ, the ubiquitous IM platform SINA, Sohu, and NetEase run thriving... [read full story]