General interest web sites and technologies and their Chinese
counterparts
For Chinese language and encoding see:
App market - Cell phone 手機 Android Apps
App market - Cell phone 手機 iPhone Apps
App market - web apps - conduit
App market - CNZZ Digital expert（Shùjù zhuānjiā） 数字专家
Baidu (100 degrees) 百度
(Major
Chinese Portal)
Search Engine (sōusuǒ
yǐnqíng) 搜索引擎
Web pages (wǎngyè)
网 页,
News (xīnwén) 新 闻,
Images (túpiàn) 图 片,
Videos (shìpín) 视频,
Blogs bókè (博客)
Hand drawn Chinese input -
Dictionary - (Chinese-English /
English-Chinese) 词典
Social
Networking Baidu (空间 Baidu Zone)
Encyclopedia
百科 (China's Wikipedia)
more (gèng duō) 更多
Search Engine, Web, News, Images, Videos,
Blogs
Email - MSN, Hotmail
Books - Joyo (excellent Amazon) 卓越亚马逊
Browser - Sohu 搜狐 Liúlǎn qì
浏览器
Communications
Citrix GoToMyPC
Classmates
American - Classmates
Classmates Russian
- Odnoklassniki
Encyclopedia - Wikipedia (Best in English)
Encyclopedia - Wikipedia (Best in Chinese)
Encyclopedia - Baidu baike 百度百科
Encyclipedia - Hudong (Mutual Action) 互动 百科
Academic
Research - CNKI 中國知網 (costs money)
File store - https://www.dropbox.com/ (English file
storage)
File store - https://www.kanbox.com/ (Chinese file storage)
Google 谷歌 (major World portal)
Hong Kong (Inside China you get redirected to this version which
is Bowdlerized)
Search Engine (sōusuǒ
yǐnqíng) 搜索引擎
Web pages
(wǎngyè) 网 页, News (xīnwén) 新 闻, mages (túpiàn) 图 片, Videos (shìpín) 视频, Blogs (bókè) 博客
Discussion Groups - Find people like you
Maps -
look all over the world
Calendar - organize your schedule
Docs - create Documents, Spread Sheets,
Presentations, Drawings, Forms - online
Google - Earth, Sky, Mars, Moon -
Google Translate (Translates
to and from many languages)
Browser - Chrome (very good browser)
Email - Gmail (Gmail Number 9 World 193.3
Million November/2010)
more (gèng duō) 更多
Jobs -
Asian academic - asiannetwork
NetEase (wangyi) 网易 (163) (major
Chinese portal) (Number 4 World 360 Million May/2011)
News, Shopping, Games, etc
Micro Blog网易微波 (like
Twitter)
Find the facts -
think for yourself - discard the propaganda
News - Wikipedia (most accurate and extensive news)
You can't
understand current events unless you understand the past.
News
(Use the search engines and be critical of the sources.)
News
- 雅虎 yahoo Chinese news
search
News - 網易 Netease 163 news search
News - BBC (British)
News - New York Times
(American)
News -
(The Island) Aljazeera (Middle East English)
News - Aljazerra الجزيرة
(Arabic)
News - Samachar (South Asia)
News - (World
Journal) 世界日报 (North American Chinese news)
News
- CNet (Computer news)
News
- Media Matters (Corrects Fox lies and other garbage news)
News - Link TV (News from
world sources)
News - Defpro.com (Military news)
News - New Nations.com (Country updates)
News - The Economist
(News on the world economy)
News - Russia Today (Sometimes a good source)
Office software OracleOpenOffice (was StarOffice)
Online Payments - Alibaba 阿里巴巴集团 (parent company of
Alipay and Taobao)
News and
lots of other stuff
Photo share - Flickr (picture
sharing)
QQ空间 QQzone (major Chinese portal) (4th
in World 480 Million March/2011) not free
Blogs, Diaries
Sell your
stuff - Ebay (Auction
- San Francisco - East Bay)
Sell your stuff - Taobao (Pottery
Treasure) 淘宝网 (Chinese equivalent of eBay)
Sell your
stuff - Craigslist (Classified ads, also in China)
Search Engine Optimization and other stuff
SEO - Chinaz China Webmaster 站長之家
Site Info - Alexa (about a site)
Site Info - Go Dady (get a domain name)
Site Info - 293.net (Chinese Alexa)
Search Engine (sōusuǒ yǐnqíng) 搜索引擎
Web pages (wǎngyè)
网 页,
News (xīnwén) 新 闻,
Images (túpiàn) 图 片,
Videos (shìpín) 视频,
Blogs (bókè) 博客
Sohu (Search Fox) 搜狐 (major Chinese portal)
Search
Engine (sōusuǒ yǐnqíng) 搜索引擎
Web pages (wǎngyè)
网 页,
News (xīnwén) 新 闻, mages
(túpiàn) 图 片, Videos (shìpín) 视频,
Blogs (bókè) 博客
Input Method
Editor - Pinying - Sogou
Browser - (Liúlǎn qì) 浏览器 - Sogou
Sina (New Wave) 新浪 (major Chinese portal)
(Number 10 World 140 Million May/2011 Sina
Weibo)
Search Engine sōusuǒ
yǐnqíng 搜索引擎
(Web pages wǎngyè 网 页,
News xīnwén 新 闻,
(Recommended for news)
mages túpiàn
图 片,
Videos shìpín视频,
Blogs bókè博客)
Match, BBS, Travel, Yellow Pages, Chinese Flight
Sina Weibo (Micro Broadcast) 微博 (Chinese Twitter in US)
Sina Weibo
(Chinese Twitter in China)
(8th in World 200 Million
January/2011) short messages
Social
Networking - RenRen (People Web) 人人網
(like
Facebook) was校内网160
million in China
America On Line Instent
Messenger
Windows live - like Facebook (most popular in
China, open in China)
Hotmail - Free email
Windows
Messenger - Instant messenger
SkyDrive - free disk storage space for files and web based
Word, Excell, Power Point, OneNote.
(7th in World 203 Million
February/2011) Teenagers - after place
in Morocco
(12th in World 120 Million August/2010) India Brazil - after aTurkish man Orkut Buyukkokten
Also known as Facebox
and Bingbos Belgian
Social Networking
- (Contacts) Vkontakte
(11th in World 135 Million February/2011)
Russian
Social
Networking - Bebo (Blog Early Blog Often)
(13th in World 117 Million July/2010)
Social Networking - Badoo dating low privacy
(14th in World 113 Million April/2011)
(1st in World 663 Million March/2010)
IM,
Voice, Video, Chat, Video Conferencing, screen sharing, sending files
(15th in World 100 Million March/2011)
(professional networking)
(3rd
in World 600 Million January/2011) (Social networking)
Social Networking - Douban
(pea flower petal) Dòubàn豆瓣
Big
in China
(10th largest social network, 6.9 million weekly visits)
Security
- Registry booster - uniblue
Suggested good sites
- Facebook Share
Suggested good
sites - Stumble Upon
Suggested good sites
- Delicious
Suggested
good sites - Yahoo Buzz Log
Tencent QQ (Ten Cent 十分）téngxùn 腾讯 (major Chinese portal)
Instant Messaging (English)
(Number 2 World, 636 Million, November/1010)
QQ from OICQ (Open ICQ (I Seek You))
Email (Chinese Simplified, Traditional, English, French,
Japanese)
Video - Youtube (blocked in China)
Video - Youtube Downloader (for downloading Youtube
videos)
Video - Youku (Excellent Cool) 优酷
Video
- Movie rental - NetFlix
Video - TV CCTV 4 (China Central Television) 中国网络电视台
(Chinese government TV)
Video - TV TTV (Taiwan Television) 台視
Video - Tianjin Telivision (tjtv) 天津电视
Video -
Phoenix Television Fènghuáng Wèixīng
Diànshì 鳳凰衛星電視 (Chinese)
Video - Phoenix Television Fènghuáng
Wèixīng Diànshì 鳳凰衛星電視 (English)
Video - Adobe Flash Player - cnet
Video - Flash Video downloader for Google Chrome cnet
Video - Kuber - China Video
Downloader (For tudou.com,
youku.com, 56.com, ku6.com 6.cn, video.qq.com, and tv.sohu.com)
Video -
Movies Internet Movie Database - imdb (Internet Movie Database)
Video from commercial TV 葫蘆(葫芦)(calabash) 互錄(互录)hùlù (interactive
recording) http://www.hulu.com/
Wenxuecity (Literature
City) 文学城 (blocked in China)
(Major world portal, popular with overseas
Chinese)
News, Forums, Blogs, Stock Market, Shopping,
Classifieds, Career, Events
(very popular in China) (Major World portal)
Email, Hotmail, Groups, Calendar, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, Office
(Viewer), Plug-in
(5th in World 330 Million June/2009)
Windows
Live (Windows Live Messenger)
Windows
Live Messenger Mobile
Yahoo
(Chinese version)
Search Engine (sōusuǒ
yǐnqíng) 搜索引擎
Web pages wǎngyè 网 页,
News (xīnwén) 新 闻,
images (túpiàn) 图 片,
Videos (shìpín) 视频,
Blogs bókè博客