Baidu Blocked By Major Chinese Sites

It appears that Baidu, the Chinese search giant, has hit a bit of a stumbling block.  Some major portals and social networks in its home market have stopped the company's spiders from indexing their sites.

You Can’t Just Make New Friends on Facebook!

Facebook is not a social network. Who knew? That's what they have told their users anyway. TechCrunch shares an email that a user was sent when their account was deleted. In that email, Lauren of User Operations for Facebook says:

Mobile Search Growth Up 68 Percent

Mobile search is increasing in both popularity and frequency in the U.S. and Western Europe.In June 2008, 20.8 million U.S. mobile subscribers and 4.5 million European mobile subscribers used mobile search during the month, an increase of 68 and 38 percent from June 2007, respectively, according to comScore M: Metrics.The U.K. had the highest penetration of mobile subscribers using search at 9.5 percent, trailed closely…