Remember the Chinese search engine set to launch an IPO on Nasdaq that supported MP3 searching and linked directly to music tracks on personal FTP servers? Well, Baidu has complied with a request from a Chinese music licensing agency called R2G, and removed several thousand links. More removals are pending. Baidu has stated that 22 percent of its searches seek MP3 files. That's a whopping price in traffic to pay for the company's new notoriety. (The test searches I ran the other day when originally posting on this item remain effective; as of this post those searches turn up downloadable MP3 files.)
Baidu Removes Music Links
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(Page 1)2. Probably related to this removal of mp3 links, Baidu traffic is down almost two thirds over the last week!
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Posted at 6:06AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Juan Lopez-Valcarcel
3. Probably related to this removal of mp3 links, Baidu traffic is down almost two thirds over the last week!
http://www.digitalmediareview.com/archives/72
Posted at 6:06AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Juan Lopez-Valcarcel
1. Probably related to this removal of mp3 links, Baidu traffic is down almost two thirds over the last week!
http://www.digitalmediareview.com/archives/72
Posted at 6:06AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Juan Lopez-Valcarcel