Chinese Search Engines

The Internet has become a vast, global storehouse of information. The only problem is: how do you find what you're looking for? Search engines index each word within internet documents. When internet users pose a query to a search engine, it matches the query words versus the records it has in its databases. The search service responds by giving a list of all the Web pages in its index relating to those topics. The most relevant content will appear at the top of the results. Below are some useful and popular search engines for searching Chinese web sites.

Baidu (http://www.baidu.com/)
-A powerful search engine to search Chinese resources
-Users can perform Pin yin search for Chinese materials.

China Findouter (http://www.findouter.com/China/)
-The search engine and web directory for China
-English language web sites only

ChinaSite.com (http://www.chinasite.com/)
- A subject directory
- The Complete Reference to China/Chinese-Related Web Sites

Google (http://www.google.com) Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional
-A search engine suports English, Chinese Big5 and GB Code
-A Yahoo style subject directory
-Provides key word search in character and English
-Provides links to Chinese American, Chinese Australian, Chinese Canadian, and links to Google China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Chinese.
-A very powerful search engine.

Google.cn (http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/)
-Google for China local people.
- Strips out information not approved by the Communist authorities.

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/)
-Search for scholarly literature
- Support Chinese
- Find papers, abstracts and citations
- Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web
- Learn about key papers in any area of research

Sohu.com (http://www.sohu.com/)
-A Yahoo style subject directory in GB code
- Supports Chinese simplified character search
- Useful for searching information on China

Yahoo Chinese (http://chinese.yahoo.com/)
- Provides Chinese Big5 and GB version.
- Supports Chinese character search
- Provides links to Yahoo Taiwan, Yahoo Hong Kong and Yahoo Singapore and linking sites in Chinese all over the world
- Provides searchable subject directory, particularly useful for looking up regional information
- A useful search directory for Chinese studies

YamWeb Navigator. (http://www.yam.com/)
- Provides Chinese Big5 version.
- Supports Chinese character search
- Provides searchable subject directory, particularly useful for looking up Taiwan information
- A useful search directory for Chinese studies