Google China Gets Special Homepage

Google China has launched an alternative home page, one more dense with information and links, including links to Google services and even to the competition. The page, available at google.cn/hp?sp=china, features very different search tabs (music, TV, games, software, sports and education), representing the search interests of Chinese users, links to popular Google China services and important informational websites (including train times and network speed tests), popular searches
The bottom of the page features a large listing of links to every popular website Google could think of, including Baidu, MSN China, Yahoo, Alibaba, Newegg, Hotmail. Maybe four out of over 90 links are to Google services, the rest being a very cool effort by Google to pay more attention to the needs of users than to self-interest.
Google wants users to be able to rely on them, even if they love the competition, so this alternative Google homepage lets users […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg