CNCMAX, a popular movie download service provider in China has team up with Google China on the search engine sector. I previously has posted a post that entitled, “CNCMAX + VODONE = China’s YouTube?” in which I described a joint-venture of CNCMAX and VODONE would likely to become the YouTube clone in China. According to an article of CNET China (in Mandarin), CNCMAX and Google China have both announced the strategic alliance of these two companies and they will launch a search engine that namely CNCMAX Search. Additionally, a user can search the Web through a toolbar provided by Google China that found in the CNCMAX’s user interface.

Search engine competitions are still very intense and I believed Google China recognized that by team up with CNCMAX, would have significant implications for their search engine market in the future. On the other hand, the movie download war has escalated over the past few months, the threats from Xunlei, PPStream (see my another post), Tudou, and etc. players have culminating the proposed aforesaid strategic alliance. I noticed that there are two different approaches of the giant players such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! on the Web. In their home country where they set up their headquarters, they always want to buy the smaller players whereas in the overseas market, they doing and walk in the opposite direction.

I came across a new site that launched in China this week. It is called CNCMAX.VODONE.COM and it was founded by two companies, i.e. cncmax and vodone. I wonder they’re the copycat of YouTube and some argued that whatever a site gained a huge success in the U.S. and throughout the world, some companies in China are going to launch a site with the similar ideas there. A famous duo appeared in YouTube before which is Two Chinese Boys “后舍男生” was also featured a new video that entitled, “说唱脸谱” and has been uploaded to this site. To run the video, the users are encouraged to use Internet Explorer and enable the Adobe Player to be installed too.

Obviously, when I saw the headlines “现场直播”、“我要搞笑”、“我要出名”, translate as “live broadcast”, “I want to make fun”, “I want to be famous”, it seems that this site was deployed the same business model as YouTube did in the past in attracting more users to upload their videos to the site. Indeed, I believed China is no longer an Internet auxiliary market, for those big players that would want to penetrating the China Internet market, they need to create a main Chinese site that purposely to serve the specific needs of the Chinese people there. But the big question is how soon those big players including YouTube, would pursuing this kind of business strategy.