OSChina user Hongshu (红薯) has created a diagram of Western internet companies and their Chinese counterparts, featuring the likes of Taobao (淘宝网), China's version of eBay, Renren (人人网), China's Facebook clone, and Youku (优酷), the Chinese Youtube. More recent copycats include Sina Weibo (新浪微博) and Zhihu (知乎), China's Twitter and Quora clones respectively.
The only Western internet business featured that at least enjoys some popularity in China is Microsoft's MSN/Windows Live Messenger network. Other than that I can only think of Amazon.cn, also known as Joyo (卓越), the Chinese subsidiary of Amazon.com, as another example for a relatively successful Western internet business.
All in all an interesting peak at the Chinese internet industry and the C2C (Copy to China) phenomenon.
Source: Scatter diagram of domestic and foreign internet companies (国内外互联网企业分布图) http://www.oschina.net/news/16020/internet-enterprise-map, OSChina (开源中国社区) http://www.oschina.net
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