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To: DataBits who wrote (347)	7/24/1999 10:13:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 504

Major Online Survey in China Skewed By Bogus Questionnaires Oh well looks the recent 'study' showing Sina.com and others way ahead of China.com doesn't appear to be all that accurate going by this article here. ========================== (7/19/99) ChinaOnline and other major news organizations recently reported on a survey by China's state-run Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which listed the twenty most popular web sites in China. The survey, which was conducted from June 15-30, asked each respondent to list the home page of his or her browser, as well as his or her favorite web sites. However, last week the July 16 Diannao Ribao (Computer Daily) reported that over 10,000 of the returned questionnaires were faked. Of these, about 3,000 were apparently submitted by three Chinese web sites in an effort to boost their rankings. The paper quoted an anonymous CNNIC staff member as saying that one or more of the three suspected web sites ranked as "excellent" in the original CNNIC survey results. Of the 66,283 questionnaires, only 52,549 were legitimate, the paper said. CNNIC director Mao Wei says the technical personnel at CNNIC first became suspicious when they noticed that many of the questionnaires were e-mailed from the same Internet protocol (IP) address. CNNIC responded to the dubious e-mails but they bounced back, leading them to believe that the addresses were fabricated. When CNNIC called the phone numbers listed on the questionnaires, they either received no response or the person who answered the phone denied filling in more than one questionnaire. Mao said he could not reveal the names of the three suspected web sites, since he is "still unsure" whether the fake questionnaires were part of a scam by the web site companies or merely the mistakes of individual users. The survey originally listed the top twenty web sites in China, in order, as: Sina.com, Sohu, Capital Online, Yahoo!, Netease, 163 E-Post, Office, Yahoo! Chinese, Popular Computer Weekly (Newspaper), Shanghai Hotline, Shilingtong, ChinaByte, CCTV, Guangzhou Net, Capital Online Free Email, Hotmail, Window on Shenzhen, Netease Search, PC Home, CNNIC Web site, and Microsoft. chinaonline.com