The second China conference on search engine strategies, at the end of this month in Xiamen, promises to be even less of an event than the 2006 SES in Nanjing last year. Last year China's leading search engine Baidu was not present at the stage.
Yahoo-China has now become the major sponsor, while Microsoft and Google have disappeared as a sponsor and on the current agenda I could only find a Google engineer who would be speaking. Also local players are no longer sponsoring. Of course, Baidu is certainly not present on the stage.
Even Alibaba's Jack Ma is no longer giving a key note speech like he did last year, as far as I could see on the website. Probably Mr. Ma does not feel to happy with the only unsuccessful venture he is heading. While the talk of a possible IPO of Alibaba has become stronger, Yahoo China is excluded from this exercise and probably for good reasons. The conference might still be of interest as an expert-meeting, but no longer as a media event.
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