China dot coms and their US counterparts

February 11th, 2008

The Chinese Internet and the US Internet are like parallel universes – for every successful dot com in China or the US, there is usually a similar dot com (often separately owned and managed) based in the other country.

Sometimes these dot coms are even clones (exact look-a-likes) of each other. For example check out this side by side comparison of twitter.com and komoo.cn.

twitter.com

komoo.cn

I’ve compiled a list of similar China and US dot coms in the table below. Let me know if you know of other major dot coms and I’ll add it to the list!

Category	US-based .com	China-based .com
Search Engine	Google.com	Baidu.com
Social Networking	Friendster.com Facebook.com MySpace.com LinkedIn.com	Xiaonei.com Faceren.com Tianya.cn Zhanzuo.com MySpace.cn
Video	YouTube.com Google Video MetaCafe.com	Tudou.com 56.com Youku.com Ku6.com
Jobs	Monster.com	ChinaHR.com 51job.com ZhaoPin.com
Portal	Yahoo.com MSN.com AOL.com	Sina.com Sohu.com qq.com Tom.com 163.com
Auction	Ebay.com	Ebay.cn TaoBao.com
Restaurant Reviews	CitySearch.com	Dianping.com
Travel Reservations	Expedia.com Orbitz.com	ctrip.com elong.com
Books	Amazon.com	Dangdang.com
Encyclopedia	Wikipedia.com	Baidu Baike Hoodong.com
Payment	PayPal.com	Alipay.com Yeepay.com
Street View	Google Street View	City8.com
Micro-blogging	Twitter.com	Komoo.cn Zuosa.com Fanfou.com Jiwai.de
Classifieds	Craigslist.org	kijiji.cn
Local Business Reviews	Yelp.com	Localnoodles.com

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2 Comments Add your own

1. Dave | June 8th, 2008 at 9:40 pm

This is a nice list of sites! It would be great to have two more columns with the respective launch date of sites in the two countries. I think we will see the gap decrease precipitously.
2. Liqin | June 18th, 2008 at 11:32 am

整理的很齐全嘛