Alibaba/Yahoo China CEO Jack Ma to be Keynote Speaker at SES 2006 China

[amy]

Alibaba/Yahoo China CEO will be the keynote speaker at Search Engine Strategies (SES) 2006 China:

We're excited to announce that Jack Ma, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba/Yahoo, will be one of our two keynote speakers at SES China. In 1995, Ma founded China Pages, widely regarded to be China's first internet-based company, and has been actively involved in driving the growth of the Chinese internet.

full article: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060217-115821
SES 2006 China info: http://www.isas.cn/en/

related topic Search Engine Strategies 2006 Conference & Expo New York 27/2/06-2/3/06 http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...091.0.html

[regic]

Tell us about Yahoo! China.
Yahoo! has been in China for 8 years but we still needed to stabilize the management team and we did that. We’re positioning Yahoo! China/Alibaba to help businesses go online (everyone’s clapping! Jack Ma’s obviously a celebrity in China). When we took over, development of SE technology should be fast. I didn’t change a lot. Yahoo.com.cn acquisition. SE is a tool. It should serve Alibaba users. In ecommerce we lack SE. We took over Yahoo! believing that. Do we develop portal? Or do we develop SE? SE is a very important support to e-commerce. Well we still have 95 years to do it, if we can’t do it this year or next year.

Is competition good?
We were once compared with eBay: eBay is a shark in Pacific Ocean and Alibaba is a crocodile in the Yangtze River. Competition is not the same as a battle. In battles, one has to die, only must survive. That is not competition. If they want to compete with us, I don’t have a problem. I’m not afraid of anyone (thunderous clapping here). In 3-5 years, we will change the rules of the game. We don’t need to follow Google or Baidu’s rules. We will make our own rules.

full article: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/003499.html

[amy]

There's a related article about Jack Ma and his search rival Zhou Shaoning (head of Google product development in China).

Maverick and gangster battle over the Internet

They share the same vision, but with some twists of words and maneuvering of perspectives. Two of the most powerful search engine operators in and out of China are put on opposing stands in the country's humongous Internet market.

Listening to what Google China's business development chief Zhou Shaoning and Yahoo! China chief Jack Ma had to say about the current search engine industry at a recent conference in Nanjing offered quite an insight to the intricate business world in China.

In many ways, the two images they portrayed at the conference were rather symbolic of the tussle between foreign and local players in the mainland...

full article: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/04...ternet.htm

[regic]

A related topic:

Highly squeezed by Baidu.com and Google.com, Yahoo! China today readjusted its Chinese search service by casting away the "one-search-frame model" that takes the page from Google's playbook....

Tian Jian, executive general manager of Yahoo! China, says that the old version is lack of interactivity in the Web 2.0 era and it may be suitable for Internet users in the west, but not Chinese.

Yahoo! China simplified its main page in November 2005. But merely six months later, it returned to its old style by reading channels of latest news, music, photo, community, and so on...

full article: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/04/05/1541305.htm