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Google Drops in Market Share in China

Google has the most popular search engine worldwide and dominates completely in some markets. But there are exceptions to this, and China is one of the biggest. And, not only is it far behind the market leader in the country, Google is actually losing search market share, dropping significantly since last year despit...

23 September 2009
10:02 GMT

China Prepares to Hunt Music Piracy Offenders

The Chinese Government is preparing a law to counter the latest rise in online music piracy from companies, websites and users located in China. This could have serious implications on China-based search engines Baidu and Sogou, recognized as the best way to find free (mostly illegal) download links for audio tracks....

5 September 2009
05:09 GMT

Baidu Shows Strong Growth in the Second Quarter

Leading Chinese online search provider Baidu posted its financial results for the second quarter, showing strong growth in search ad earnings with overall revenue at 1.1 billion yuan ($160.7 million). The revenue was up 37 percent year over year and 35 percent from the first quarter, slightly above analyst estimates,...

27 July 2009
05:07 GMT

Baidu Seeking Acquisitions in China

Baidu, the largest search engine in China, bigger than Google in the country, is looking for new acquisitions to solidify its position and maybe even extend its lead. Few people outside of China have heard of the search engine, but with the nation being the largest Internet market in the world, with over 300 million ...

23 June 2009
09:27 GMT

Google to Allow Free Music Downloads in China

On Monday, Google Inc. has announced that it has begun offering free and legal downloads of licensed music on its Chinese servers, after the American company reached an agreement with the four largest music producers and distributors in the world – Sony Music, Warner Music, EMI and Universal Music. Google will ...

30 March 2009
09:34 GMT

Listing Scandal Causes Baidu's Revenues to Drop

Baidu, China's greatest Internet Search Engine, was recently involved in a scandal due to paid listings of unlicensed clinics and drug producers. The company controlled around 60% of China's search engine market, but things are about to change, as Baidu stands now accused of increasing the search engine ran...

2 December 2008
02:10 GMT

The Whole Web Mourns Earthquake Victims

Following the destructive earthquake which hit China on May 12, the entire web is today commemorating the victims of the tragedy in its very own methods. According to China Daily, China announced three days of national mourning and suspended all entertainment websites from displaying their content on the Internet. Ho...

19 May 2008
06:28 GMT

Another IM Service Emerging

The list of Internet companies that operate search engines and have gone for the instant messaging approach to communication just added Chinese-based Baidu. The fourth biggest search engine in the world is no meaningless addition to the above mentioned array, it will provide the Chinese with something specifically ta...

3 March 2008
16:16 GMT

Baidu Cornered in New Piracy Suit

Baidu has been a target ever since it emerged as China's number one search engine. Crawling roughly everything, it was inevitable to be involved some way or the other in lawsuits caused by users uploading and linking to pirated software and entertainment content. So far, it was not involved this year in any scan...

29 February 2008
06:09 GMT

Chinese Baidu Censored for 'Naughty' Photos

Baidu.com owns the Chinese search engine market with dominance, very much like Google does in the United States. And, just like Google oversees, it too has some problems with the content it circulates around the Internet. While the Mountain View-based company is currently undergoing a change in policy and thinking ab...

19 February 2008
10:39 GMT

Baidu in Trouble with Warner and Universal

The counter-offensive that the IFPI have started against piracy lacks some coordination, as far as I'm concerned. It's going after everybody at the same time, suing across continents and taking the battle to everybody's field. At the same time, I'm afraid that they're entering the battlegroun...

5 February 2008
05:59 GMT

Who's Second in the Search Market? Google Is!

No, nothing happened to the Mountain View-based Internet giant, the catch is that the place the survey has been conducted in is China, and Google never owned the majority of the shares there. Baidu has and, by the looks of it, it will still reign supreme for a couple of years. After all, the China-based search engine...

28 January 2008
17:21 GMT

Google and Yahoo! Competitor Arises in Japan

I'm thinking Google should start worrying about its services in Japan and so should Yahoo! The search engine that dominates the Chinese market has set its eyes on the neighboring country and it is determined to go the extra mile to win the battle for the advertising cash in the world's second largest econom...

23 January 2008
06:29 GMT

Baidu Mourning CFO

Success is just another prerogative that can measure a person's life. As everything nowadays has a price, and I do mean everything, in order to mean something, the success must invariably be measured in money (yours), in which case you're an entrepreneur, or that which you make for others, that making you a...

3 January 2008
05:04 GMT

Baidu Catches Fox. Firefox

Baidu is surprisingly the leading search engine in China, instead of Google, who is still falling in and out of love with the Chinese Government because it is not allowed to display any search results that might be offensive to the Party. And there's more to that story, but this is not the main issue at hand.Ge...

7 December 2007
08:47 GMT

Bad News for Baidu… 100 Million of Them

I'm trying to figure out why the following phrase sounds so familiar and I just can't: "[X] sued for Intellectual Property Rights violation." Perhaps it might appeal to your memory because I just can't think of anything that resembles it. Oh, wait… it's all too common and that's why I couldn&...

23 November 2007
10:49 GMT

Google Turns To G, No More Oogle in the Name!

Since Google expanded its offering to China residents, it tried anything that was possible to become a top player in the local market but Baidu received all the praises. Today, the Mountain View-based company did another smart move although I really don't know how many consumers it is able to bring. Google recen...

6 November 2007
06:11 GMT

How to Steal Google's Millions of Users

I must warn you from the beginning that this piece of news is not yet confirmed so please take it as a rumor. Duncan Riley from TechCrunch sustains that one of his Chinese contacts notified him about a strange situation in the country which might explain Baidu's dominance over the super giant Google. As you sure...

18 October 2007
04:57 GMT

Google Still King of the Web

We all know Google is the most popular search engine on the web and the market researchers support this statement. A new similar study was rolled out a few days ago by comScore and obviously, it reveals that Google yet again won the first place in the battle with the other search technologies on the web. According to...

12 October 2007
04:33 GMT

Microsoft Is Not Even in Third Place in the Search Race

Microsoft is the undisputed underdog of the search market, and the now traditional occupant of the third position in the constant race against direct rivals Google and Yahoo. But the fact of the matter is that the combined results of MSN and Live Search do not manage to ensure that the Redmond company will trail only...

10 October 2007
04:06 GMT

Google Cries as Its Land Is Stolen

The Chinese rival of Google, Baidu, announced its plans to expand the company's offering into Japan, a market that could represent the first step for a global expansion. According to Reuters, Baidu's officials said the Chinese leader will invest no less than $15 million in the Japanese industry because they...

4 September 2007
03:49 GMT

Google - Number One. Not Now But Very Soon...

Google is number one and you know it. That's why you're probably asking what's wrong with the title. Well, I'm talking about China where the Mountain View company struggles to expand its solutions and become the leader of the country in the detriment of Baidu. At a recent conference, the Google CE...

23 July 2007
06:48 GMT

Google Allowed to Conquer China

Although Google was regarded as a company that is restricted from China, the Mountain View company is finally allowed to step into the Asian market after the country's Ministry of Information and Industry agreed on Google's plans. According to Reuters, the search giant might begin offering news content to t...

20 June 2007
09:31 GMT

A Blind User Would Choose Google as His Search Engine

The Chinese company Intelliconsulting recently conducted a market research that revealed that Google finally managed to beat the Chinese rival Baidu after the users preferred the Mountain View company as their default search engine. The tests included 2,740 Chinese internet users who didn't know which search tec...

12 June 2007
10:11 GMT

Google China Grows Up. Baidu Wins More!

Google's presence on the Asian market is more and more interesting for all the Internet users because the company is struggling to develop new and more powerful products but it seems like all the efforts are useless. Since the first step in Asia, Google was hardly working to challenge the Chinese leader Baidu bu...

7 March 2007
05:13 GMT


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