The third is the integrative portal sites which are still the largest websites in China. Like sina, sohu, 163.com and so on. They are very famous among the net-citizens because of the large information everyday. But in other words they are not in the same way as those famous traditional newspapers: they have no or few reporters but many editors:) It is said the most regular important thing is copy paste. In my opinion they like huge animals, awesome, but slow-action. Nowadays it’s not “large fish eats small one” but “quick fish eats slow one”. Their hugeness may be big resistance to keep developing.
What’s next? I think the next big thing will be the searching engine and the professional portal. For the portal sites like sina, because of the RSS technology’s widely using, some personal sites can import the news produced by sina and we can read it easily, without opening sina’s large page and bearing the lots of advertisements. So the pageview of these portal sites will decrease and the incoming by Ads in page will also decrease. Because of the inexhaustible information in the internet, we will depend on the searching engine much more. Without it we can’t find the useful things in the net and will be lost. Baidu is the largest Chinese searching sites now, while Google is the biggest one in the world. Which will be better in the next decade is an interesting thing. I prefer Google more:)
How about professional portal then? Where will you go if want to buy a notebook, computer market or supermarket? I guess most of us will choose the front. It’s the same to find or study something in the network. Professional sites will be much more believable. What are the examples? CSDN is the professional programmer site, taobao is the professional C2C trading site, YouXia is the professional PC game site, etc.
Some other company will be remarkable for sure. Because the large number of QQ’s user, QQ.com easily get into the top 5 sites in China. MSN.com.cn is mussy now but nobody will look down on it.
What do you think? Is there any other sites missed?