China dot coms and their US counterparts
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 |
| Classifieds | Craigslist.org | kijiji.cn |
| Local Business Reviews | Yelp.com | Localnoodles.com |
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