The last part of our feature on leading Western Web Services and their Asian equivalents (some call them clones or copies ..) is about the largest Internet Market in the world: China. This post is in response to the overview started by Serkan Toto of Asiajin on Japanese equivalents and the follow-up by Channy Yun on Koreacrunch. Here is the response from Taiwan.
General Web Services
| Leading Western Web Service | Chinese Equivalent |
| Tripadvisor | Yiqilai but also Qunar & eLong |
| Baidu | |
| Wikipedia | Hudong |
| Xiaonei | |
| Flickr | Yupoo & Bababian |
| Digg | QQ Bookmark, Baidu SouCang, Yahoo ShouCang, eYou, INU.cc, Gotou, Otag.cn, MyURLWorld, BBmao |
| Tianji, Renhe & Wealink | |
| Digu, Zuosa & Fanfou | |
| YouTube | Tudou & Youku |
| Amazon | Dang Dang |
| delicio.us | QQ Bookmark, Baidu SouCang, Yahoo ShouCang, eYou, INU.cc, Gotou, Otag.cn, MyURLWorld, BBmao |
| dooyoo | Beargoo |
| Netflix | your trusted street vendor |
| Craigslist | Baixing & Ganji |
| imdb | Douban |
| Wall Street Journal Online | People's Daily |
| monster.com | Zhaopin |
| Ebay | Taobao |
| Alexa | Chinarank |
| Hulu | PPLive & PPstream |
| 4chan | Our Chinese comrades would never look at such filth. Never. |
| last.fm | cn.last.fm |
| Technorati | |
| Yahoo! Answers | Zhidao Baidu |
| Zynga | making billions off online addicted kids? Tencent! Honorable mention: 5Minutes |
| MSN Messenger | |
| Myspace | 51.com & Kaixin |
| Yahoo! | Sina & Sohu |
| Expedia | Ctrip |
| Paypal | Alipay |
| Match.com | Zhenai |
| Yelp | Dianping |
Blogs
| Leading Western Web Service | Chinese Equivalent |
| Huffington Post | a liberal news website? are you kidding me!? |
| tmz.com | iFensi |
| Boing Boing | |
| Gizmodo | evolife |
| Engadget | Engadget China |
Web Tools & Software
| Leading Western Web Service | Chinese Equivalent |
| Gmail | 163.com & 126.com |
| Google Docs & Spreadsheets | Baihui |
| Blogger | Blogbus |
| iTunes |
Baidu MP3 |
| BitTorrent | Xunlei |
| WordPress | PJHome |
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hobbot (Friday, 07 August 2009 19:33)
How would you classify baike.baidu.com?
Tait (Sunday, 09 August 2009 20:05)
China isn't the largest internet market. It has the largest internet population though.